Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Sculpture by Christian Daniel Rauch, 1820. Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg. From the museum’s description: Rauch’s Goethe portrait, modeled in 1820, was considered an accurate likeness. The exhibited bust once stood in Rauch’s Berlin studio. It was used for taking casts for reproducing the portrait of the prominent poet and writer. Goethe (1749- 1832) - a friend of Jacob Philipp Hackert’s, Angelika Kauffmann’s and Friedrich Schiller’s - represented the cosmopolitan perspective of the “Citizen of the World”. He placed importance on the free and individual development of the mind and on understanding objective nature. (…) In 1776 Goethe, who had studied law, entered the service of the enlightened-absolutist Duke of Saxe-Weimar and advanced to become a senior states-man. (…) The poet of the “West-East Divan” (1819) kept his distance from nationalist slogans and was a supporter of universal humanistic ideals.