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Informationen zum Autor JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE (1749-1832) was a German poet, writer, scientist, statesman, and one of the greatest German literary figures. Goethe, the eldest of seven children born in a wealthy Frankfurt family, studied law at the universities of Leipzig and Strasbourg. He wrote novels and poetry, dramas, treatises on botany and literary criticism, among which his successful novels The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) and Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1795). Early in his life, Goethe was a member of the Sturm und Drang literary movement, emphasizing free expression of emotions over the restraints of rationalism. Later, Goethe, together with Friedrich Schiller, initiated the Weimar Classicism, a cultural movement based on a synthesis of Romanticism, Classicism and the Enlightenment. Klappentext Goethe's work on light and colour, translated in 1840 by Sir Charles Eastlake, later keeper of the National Gallery. Zusammenfassung This work by Goethe (1749–1832) was translated into English in 1840 by Sir Charles Eastlake (1793–1865), painter and later keeper of the National Gallery. Eastlake's clear translation of Goethe's observations and experiments on colour and light will appeal to anyone interested in our responses to art. Inhaltsverzeichnis Translator's preface; Preface to the first edition of 1810; Introduction; 1. Physiological colours; 2. Physical colours; 3. Chemical colours; 4. General characteristics; 5. Relation to other pursuits; 6. Effect of colour with reference to moral associations; Concluding observations; Notes.
