Goethe Girl has made a quick (!) trip from Vancouver to Frankfurt. The purpose was a reunion with friends of mine from university days in Marburg back in the Stone Age. We meet very five years for a reunion, which takes place in the town of the organizer. This year we are in Mannheim. After my arrival at Frankfurt International Airport, I headed into the city and went to the Goethe-Museum for a very short visit, before heading on to Mannheim. The works below include two paintings that represent works with which Goethe was familiar and which he discussed in his autobiography,
Poetry and Truth (
Dichtung und Wahrheit). The other paintings are of people who were of influence in his youth. The dates indicate the way they might have looked when Goethe knew them.The paintings of Oeser, Stolberg, and Gellert are by Anton Graff. The painting of Carl August is by Johann Ernst Heinsius. According to the museum label, Carl August decided in 1780 to chop off the customary Prussian pigtail in favor of a "Schwedenkopf." (Click on pictures to enlarge.)
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| Adam Friedrich Oeser (1776) |
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| Christian F. Gellert (1769) |
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| Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg (1785) |
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| Carl August, Duke of Weimar (1781) |
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Justus Junckner, Visit to an Artist's Studio (1854)
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