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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
How Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's love affairs inspired his work
Goethe's garden house
Discovering Weimar, Germany: A city rich in art and culture
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein: Goethe in the Roman Campagna Goethe National Museum
Who created the color wheel?
“Mephistopheles Offering His Help to Faust” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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How Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's love affairs inspired his work
Learn how Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's failed love affairs inspired his works.
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Discovering Weimar, Germany: A city rich in art and culture
Learn about the rich cultural history of Weimar, Germany, including the legacy of...
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Who created the color wheel?
For millennia, many believed Aristotle's theory that all colors were a mixture of...
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, engraving by James Posselwhite, 19th century.
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Goethe's garden house
Goethe's garden house, Weimar, Germany; detail of a photomechanical print, c. 1890–1900....
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-DIG-ppmsca-01163)
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein: Goethe in the Roman Campagna
Goethe in the Roman Campagna, oil on canvas by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein,...
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Goethe National Museum
Interior of the Goethe National Museum, Weimar, Germany.
© Bundesbildstelle/Press and Information Office of the Federal Government of Germany
“Mephistopheles Offering His Help to Faust”
“Mephistopheles Offering His Help to Faust,” illustration to Goethe's Faust,...
The Bettman Archive
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, oil painting by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1828; in the Neue...
Courtesy of the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Münich, Neue Pinakothek
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