Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Biographical information from the WeGA

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Goethe in 1828, by Joseph Karl Stieler (Source: Wikimedia)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Goethe_(Stieler_1828).jpg

Basic data

August 28, 1749 in Frankfurt (Main)
†

March 22, 1832 in Weimar
Schriftsteller, Politiker, Jurist, Naturwissenschaftler, Maler, Zeichner, Theaterleiter
Weimar, Frankfurt am Main

Iconography

Goethe in 1828, by Joseph Karl Stieler (Source: Wikimedia)

Goethe's birthplace in Frankfurt (Großer Hirschgraben) (Source: Wikimedia)

Anna Katharina (Käthchen) Schönkopf (Source: Wikimedia)

Goethe c. 1775 (Source: Wikimedia)

Goethe, age 38, painted by Angelica Kauffman 1787 (Source: Wikimedia)

Goethe, by Luise Seidler (Weimar 1811) (Source: Wikimedia)

Goethe's residence and museum (Source: Wikimedia)

A Goethe watercolour depicting a liberty pole at the border to the short-lived Republic of Mainz, created under influence of the French Revolution and destroyed in the Siege of Mainz in which Goethe participated (Source: Wikimedia)

Ulrike von Levetzow (Source: Wikimedia)

Goethe and Ulrike, sculpture by Heinrich Drake in Marienbad (Source: Wikimedia)

Coffins of Goethe and Schiller, Weimar vault (Source: Wikimedia)

First edition of The Sorrows of Young Werther (Source: Wikimedia)

1876 'Faust' by Goethe, decorated by Rudolf Seitz, large German edition 51x38cm (Source: Wikimedia)

Goethe–Schiller Monument, Weimar (1857) (Source: Wikimedia)

Goethe in the Roman Campagna (1786) by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (Source: Wikimedia)

Goethe in 1810. Gerhard von Kügelgen (Source: Wikimedia)

Light spectrum, from Theory of Colours. Goethe observed that with a prism, colour arises at light-dark edges, and the spectrum occurs where these coloured edges overlap. (Source: Wikimedia)

Goethe on a 1999 German stamp (Source: Wikimedia)

Portrait of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe by Ferdinand Jagemann, 1806 (Source: Wikimedia)

Statue dedicated "To Goethe the Mastermind of the German People" in Chicago's Lincoln Park (1913) (Source: Wikimedia)

Illustration of Goethe as a classical poet by Fidus (1901) (Source: Wikimedia)

Second Goetheanum (Source: Wikimedia)

Mendelssohn plays to Goethe, 1830: painting by Moritz Oppenheim, 1864 (Source: Wikimedia)

Goethe memorial in front of the Alte Handelsbörse, Leipzig (Source: Wikimedia)

Schiller, Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt, and Goethe in Jena, c. 1797 (Source: Wikimedia)

Bildnis Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Karlsruhe - nach 1832 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Göthe, Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Unger - 1779 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Goethe, Christian Friedr. Traugott Uhlemann - 1792 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des v. Goethe, Peter im Baumgarten - 1790 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Goethe, Sichling, Lazarus Gottlieb - 1827/1863 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

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Complete Works of Carl Maria von Weber. Digital Edition, https://weber-gesamtausgabe.de/A000651 (Version 4.11.0 of July 1, 2024)
Last change of this document on December 16, 2017

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