Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
German poet, novelist, playwright, courtier, and natural philosopher,
one of the greatest figures in Western literature. In literature Goethe
gained early fame with The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774), but
his most famous work is the poetic drama in two parts, FAUST. Like
the famous character of this poem, Goethe was interested in alchemy. He
also made important discoveries in connection with plant and animal life,
and evolved a non-Newtonian and unorthodox theory of the character of light
and color, which has influenced such abstract painters as Kandinsky and
Mondrian.
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