1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Wikipedia

  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Biography, Works, Faust, & Facts

  3. Goethe as the Founder of a New Science of Aesthetics

    Goethe gives as the highest goal of Art: ‘Through semblance to give the illusion of a higher reality. It were, however, a false effort to retain the semblance so long within reality, that finally a common reality were left.’

  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - New World Encyclopedia

    Goethe rewrote the formal rules of German poetry, helped to initiate literary Romanticism and German classicism, and embodied many of the contending strands in art over the next century. His work was alternatively lushly …

  5. The Courage to Despair: Goethe, the Inner Tension of Creativity, …

  6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - National Gallery of Art

  7. Goethe: Life as a Work of Art - W. W. Norton & Company

  8. Goethe on Art - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Google Books