Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: Goethe

Artist page for Arnulf Rainer (born 1929)
.1978 View by appointment Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

9 September Dear Baroness Schey! Hanni has just walked past the window with a basketful of elderberries on her back. Why don’t you come down and cook them with Cilie? The sun’s come out again, and the white and yellow flowers are luxuriating in the light of paradise. One night I walked to Freundsberg and sat on the steps of the chapel. The beauty of the paths and flowers seems so much closer when you’re here with me. Last night I found that the postman had left two books at the kitchen window: one addressed to you, the other to …
In return I’d like you to read to me from Goethe and

16 September Dear Baroness Schey! My first wonderful breakfast of Shredded Wheat today gave me the impetus I needed to decamp to the children’s room with my most important things (paintings, books, manuscripts, typewriter and so on). The cold, damp north wind also blew the idea into my mind. All the figures I didn’t want as roommates (lovely though they are) have been taken down from the walls and locked in the wardrobe (Madonnas included!). With the vivid and colourful landscapes, the atmosphere in the room is now friendly, intimate and authentic. Undisturbed by the Lindner family, with a view …
I’m learning to appreciate Goethe for the first time

‘Designs and sketches’, collection owner: Alan L. Durst, 1919–60 – part of the digitised collection of the Tate Archive
Durst [1932] View by appointment Design depicting Goethe

Derek Boshier drawing class film at Tate
I always like the German poet and philosopher Goethe

Alan Durst (1883-1970) was born in Alverstoke, Hampshire, and educated at Marlborough College. He then served in the Royal Marines until 1913, when he began to learn to carve ivory at the London County Council Central School. His interest in carving led him to Chartres where he became enamoured of stone. But the First World War intervened, and for five years he served at sea, and on demobilization became curator of the Watts Museum at Compton, Surrey. In 1920, he returned to London and the Central School, carving in stone and wood, particularly for architectural and decorative purposes. He exhibited …
Durst [1932] View by appointment Design depicting Goethe

‘Little Dancer Aged Fourteen‘, Edgar Degas, 1880–1, cast c.1922
girl(1,079) named individuals(12,887) Van Goethen