Andy Warhol Goethe (F & S. II 271) For Sale

Warhol's Goethe portfolio, comprises of four screenprints and was created by Warhol in 1982, each image featuring the poet and writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, one of Germany’s greatest intellectuals and a forerunner of the Romantic movement. Warhol based these portraits on Goethe in the Roman Campagna by J.H.W. Tischbein.

What motivated Warhol to depict Goethe, whose profound novels and plays seem distant from Warhol's fascination with celebrity culture? On closer inspection, one might consider that both men were leading figures of the arts in their respective eras, each advocating for uninhibited artistic expression. Additionally, Warhol’s Goethe is part of a larger body of work where he turned to historical and intellectual figures, such as in Ten Portraits of Jews in the Twentieth Century (1980), which includes the German writer Franz Kafka, or his 1980 portraits of Joseph Beuys, a pioneer of the Fluxus conceptual art movement. Warhol’s silkscreens spared no icon, whether literary giants like Goethe or celebrities, thinkers, or drag queens—all were democratised and given equal significance in his artistic canon.

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