Goethe-curated collection of drawings on show in Paris

Tue, Jul 23, 2019
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A collection of drawings curated by German literary icon Johann Wolfgan von Goethe are being shown in Paris for the first time in an exhibition that will run until Sept. 1.

The exhibit, dubbed “Romantic Germany 1780 to 1850, Drawings from the Weimar collections,” includes works chosen by 35 artists chosen by Goethe on behalf of Grand Duke Karl August of Saxe Weimar Eisenach.

On their website, the Museums of the City of Paris say the exhibit offers “a panorama of this golden age of German drawing, where the emblematic figures of Fuessli, Caspar David Friedrich and Philipp Otto Runge stand out.”

German Romanticism was an intellectual movement of the German speaking countries in the late 18th and early 19th centuries that influenced art, philosophy, literature and criticism.

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JULY 23, 2019 14:05 GMT

 

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