# Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [STIELER, Karl Joseph]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 78,0 x 63,8 cm ## Commentary Goethe was a German poet, dramatist, novelist, and scientist, one of the great masters of world literature, his genius embraced most fields of human endeavor; his art and thought are epitomized in his great dramatic poem Faust. 19th-century composers - among others Franz Schubert - composed many sonds based on Goethe's poems. <P> <TABLE ALIGN=LEFT CELLPADDING=5 BORDER=1 WIDTH=320 BGCOLOR="\#99CCCC"> <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE><TD><IMG SRC="/support/gif/listen.gif" BORDER=0 VALIGN=MIDDLE> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 7 minutes\):<BR><A HREF="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/schubert/schubert\_d296\_mond.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><B>Franz Schubert: An den Mond \(To the Moon\) \(Goethe\) D 296</B></A> </TD></TR></TABLE> ## Related artworks - [Amalie von Schintling]() - [King Ludwig I in his Coronation Robes]() - [Nanette Heine, née Kaula]() - [Portrait of Prince Karl of Bavaria]() - [Portrait of the Family of Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg]() - [Portrait of Therese Alexandra Freifrau von Tettenborn]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()