From Alchemist to Anatomist: Goethe’s Faust and Gabriel von Max’s Faust Illustrations
| Place: | Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington |
| Start date: | Thursday 06, October 2011 |
| End date: | Thursday 06, October 2011 |
| Times: | 6.30pm start |
| Price: | Free |
Jane Brown, Department of Germanics, University of Washington, discusses Max's Faust illustrations in the context of Goethe's play and in the ways late-nineteenth-century understanding of it was shaped by Gounod's opera. By comparing Max's images with Goethe's own illustrations and his visual sources, with Romantic illustrations such as those of Eugène Delacroix, and with modern film versions of the Faust material, the lecture explores how Max created a modern interpretation of this literary figure. Presented with University of Washington’s Department of Germanics and the Simpson Center for the Humanities.
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Located on Seattle’s First Hill, the Frye Art Museum first opened its doors in 1952 as the legacy of Charles and Emma Frye, prominent early-twentieth century Seattle business leaders and art collectors.
Since that time, works from the Frye Founding Collection of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century European paintings have continuously been on view. The Museum also hosts notable exhibitions of works by internationally renowned and emerging artists, as well as extensive public programs.
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