Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Broschiertes Buch

Goethe's Theory of Colours

Translated from the German, with Notes

Beschreibung

This work by Goethe (1749-1832) was translated into English in 1840 by Sir Charles Eastlake (1793-1865), painter and later keeper of the National Gallery. Eastlake's clear translation of Goethe's observations and experiments on colour and light will appeal to anyone interested in our responses to art.

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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE (1749-1832) was a German poet, writer, scientist, statesman, and one of the greatest German literary figures. Goethe, the eldest of seven children born in a wealthy Frankfurt family, studied law at the universities of Leipzig and Strasbourg. He wrote novels and poetry, dramas, treatises on botany and literary criticism, among which his successful novels The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) and Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1795). Early in his life, Goethe was a member of the Sturm und Drang literary movement, emphasizing free expression of emotions over the restraints of rationalism. Later, Goethe, together with Friedrich Schiller, initiated the Weimar Classicism, a cultural movement based on a synthesis of Romanticism, Classicism and the Enlightenment.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 482
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9781108075442
• ISBN-10: 1108075444
• Artikelnr.: 41529210