Goethe Etc.
Sunday, October 30, 2016
Reflections in watery medium
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Sanford Gifford, Twilight at Lago Maggiore (1871) As the past few posts indicate, I have been obsessed with imagery concerning atmosphe...
Monday, October 24, 2016
Trees reflected in watery medium
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Gerhard Richter, Abstract Painting 780-1 (1992) In an earlier post I mentioned that Goethe commented frequently on the rainy weather ...
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Goethe marries
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"I want to sleep with you!" Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Christiane Vulpius were married on this day in 1806 in the Jacobsk...
Monday, October 17, 2016
"A hard rains gonna fall"
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Goethe must have been thinking along the lines of Bob Dylan's song (note the apocalyptic imagery: e.g., "a wave that could drown...
Friday, October 14, 2016
"Da warst du chic angezogen ..."; Addendum on 12/4/16
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So begins Helmut Winkelmann's reading of a German translation of "Like a Rolling Stone" by Bob Dylan. The Germans are takin...
Thursday, October 13, 2016
Goethe and the year without summer
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Caspar David Friedrich, Der Himmel glüht (1818) I have really been falling behind in my posting. There has been so much to do in connec...
Sunday, October 2, 2016
Stephen Spender on Faust
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Faust and Marguerite in the Garden by James Tissot (1861) I have posted on this subject before , but I have recently been engaged in ...
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