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The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

The Goethe Monument, 1832


  • Date iconJanuary 1 2004 - July 31 2004
  • Curator(s): Shlomit Steinberg
  • Oil on canvas
  • : Karl Gustav Carus
This work by Karl Gustav Carus is one of the masterpieces of German Romantic painting from the first half of the 19th century. In it, a somber and sublime landscape serves as background to a monument to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the German poet and philosopher who was a towering figure of German culture. The painting is on exchange loan from the Hamburg Kunsthalle.