The Goethe Monument (1832) by Carl Gustav Carus (German artist, lived 1789-1869). Goethe's sarcophagus.

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Gretchen in Goethe's "Faust" seems to become mad (from guilt) after drowning her child and killing her mother (under the influence of Faust). She gets sent to prison and, iirc, gets sentenced to death. Faust wants to save her.

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Brahms ostensibly wrote his "Alto Rhapsody" as a bridal present for Julie, but he the composition process to work through his irrational feelings of betrayal. He chose Goethe's "Winter's Journey in the Harz Mountains" as its text, a poem about bitterness in response to loss.

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We stumbled across Fritz Eichenberg's wood engravings for the 1954 Limited Editions Club production of Goethe's version of 'The Story of Reynard the Fox,' printed by the Gallery Press in New York in an edition of 1500 copies signed by the artist.

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Four of seventeen illustrations supplied by Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) for a French translation by Albert Stapfer of part one of Goethe's Faust, published in Paris in 1828.

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I think it would be Faust, the Necromancer, from my first years that I took my art seriously, around 2015. An oc inspired by Goethe's story and my favorite character from Shaman King, Faust-VIII. He's a doctor and necromancer with an arrogance as great as his thirst for knowledge

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Mermaid by Maurice Greiffenhagen

This was inspired by Goethe's poem about a mermaid who rises from the waters to complain to a fisherman that he is enticing her children to death.

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Image: Art Gallery of Ontario.
Mephistopheles fly over the city; from Goethe's Faust

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"God help us -- for art is long, and life so short."

🎭 in 29th January 1829, Johann Wolfgang von "FAUST, PART ONE" premiered at the Weimar Theatre, Germany.

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Goethe's Faust.
John Milton's Paradise Lost.
Dante Aligieri's The Divine Comedy.

Are the three most influential works of fiction that I genuinely believe made a life-changing impact on my own life and how I see and perceive myself and the world unfolding upon my own experience.

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Goethe's House. Wow, all the German geniuses of the time!
Sitting with are Herzog and Johann Gottfried
Xylograph after Heinrich. Merte (1838-1917). Published 1879.
https://t.co/lJrZ2slfws

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goethe's faust | faustopheles

finally finished this one! ^q^

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The Poet: Your sentimental, lyrical and passionate side.

Based on the fictional character Werther from Goethe's epistolary novel "The Sorrows of Young Werther".

Created by the incredibly talented for

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Thanks to you all for a brilliant start to today's
This is signing off now, but we'll be back in just 60 mins with the epic !
(Image: 19th century engraving of Homunculus from Goethe's Faust part II. I'd like this job...)

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My OC-sphinx. The first try in color version. This is self-insert for some role-playing and for some fandoms (f.ex. Goethe's "Faust", lol)

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Thanks to for drawing me this wonderful piece!

Got hooked on IkeVamp and I just feel for Faust both because megane and my own facination to Goethe's story. I cannot wait for his route 🥺

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Two portraits of Henry Irving as Mephistopheles in Goethe's Faust (c.1886), held by the Harry Ransome Centre :

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Harry Clarke's Beautiful and Haunting 1925 Illustrations for Goethe's 'Faust' https://t.co/uWasRQqqaM via

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At age 27, Eugène Delacroix (1798 – 1863) was creating lithographs for Goethe's Faust. In the words of Baudelaire, "Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible." His Mephistopheles is a dashing devil.

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Rare and rapturous illustrations of Goethe's "Faust" by the visionary French artist Eugene Delacroix, born on this day in 1798 https://t.co/uyC0g4vEWs

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