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Delacroix's Rare Illustrations for Goethe's 'Faust' https://t.co/MLnz2ZHpx4 via

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2020-04-04

Harry Clarke's 1925 illustrations for Goethe's Faust.

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2020-03-21

Happy birthday to Irish artist Harry Clarke, born in Dublin in 1889 (on no less). Here he is in a self-portrait as an absinthe drinking Mephistopheles from Goethe's Faust.

More in our essay "Harry Clarke’s Looking Glass" https://t.co/Kn6QPrHKWF

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2020-03-18

"I am accustomed
to stand amid the serried ranks of and environed by the threatening
forms of death, to feel, with double zest, the energy of life. "

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2020-02-15

Goethe's 'Faust'. Illustrated by Willy Pogany.

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2019-10-17

Franz Xaver Simm's Illustrations of Goethe's ''Faust'': A Selection
https://t.co/NteV56Tjt9

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2019-09-25

Detail from the by Klaus Ensikat of Goethe's ‘Faust’

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2019-09-22

Detail from the by Klaus Ensikat of Goethe's ‘Faust’

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2019-09-21

Goethe's poem The Earl-King (Erlkönig)

"Wer reitet so spät durch Nacht und wind?
Es ist der Vater mit seinem Kind" - RT

Beautiful watercolor by Thomas W. Schaller (1976)
English translation by E.A.Bowring

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2019-08-09

Good morning here to kick off today's theme: hearth and the household!
[Img: 19th century engraving of Homunculus from Goethe's Faust]

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2019-03-28

James Alfred "René" Clarke (1886-1969), illustrations to Goethe's Faust, 1932

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2019-03-20

"The things that are most real to me are the illusions which I create with my painting. Everything else is quicksand."

Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), liked Goethe's 'Faust' so much that he felt compelled to capture the book's spirit in his art.

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2018-12-30

On Delacroix's 202nd birthday, his rare and gorgeous illustrations for Goethe's Faust https://t.co/uyC0g4vEWs

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2018-04-26

For Delacroix's birthday, his magnificent illustrations for Goethe's Faust https://t.co/uyC0g4vEWs

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2017-04-26

For this week's Elizabeth chose Goethe's Faust, illustrated by Harry Clarke https://t.co/gib3lpzNZE

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2016-05-19

Delacroix, born on this day in 1798, illustrates Goethe's Faust – rare and stunning art https://t.co/uyC0g4vEWs

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2016-04-27

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
Edward Henry Сorbould, Scene from Goethe's Faust, 1852.

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2015-11-22