In the Schaenen Gallery, Floor 2L
Between 1908 and 1919, Margarethe Geibel (1876–1955) produced a skillful series of color woodcuts depicting interior views of the home of classicist, poet, playwright, and general polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), which opened as a museum in 1885. The series shows Geibel’s unique engagement with the formal exercise of rendering the house’s interiors and its collections while also celebrating the cultural significance of Germany’s greatest literary figure. The prints will be accompanied by casts from the Cornell Cast Collection matching those in Goethe’s house.
This exhibition was supported by the Jan Abrams Exhibition Endowment.