Propyläen
Die Propyläen was a periodical begun in July 1798 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and his friend Johann Heinrich Meyer.
Impetus
During the journal's short, three-year existence its various contributors and editors, for example, shown in essays by Wilhelm von Humboldt and Friedrich von Schiller, sought to address, disseminate, and foment ideas and fundamental conceptions concerning art and aesthetic processes and therewith to determine, on cultural and social levels of influence, what characterizes art's essential import and its practice by artists. Alike to Friedrich Schiller's Die Horen, the journal's basic impetus was to extend the reach of classical values in art.
Through its German name, "Propyläen" (from the Greek προπύλαιον, propylaion, pl. προπύλαια, propulaia, an entryway to a building), which can be translated to English as "Propylaea", the periodical, including its various themes, was to represent a uniquely cultural "entryway"; and thus, it symbolized the building that is life into which the artist is required to enter.
External links
- “Introduction to the Propyläen” by Goethe
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- Bibliography
Cultural depictions
- Epiphanias
- Erlkönig
- Die erste Walpurgisnacht
- Ganymed
- Gesang der Geister über den Wassern
- Gingo biloba
- Harzreise im Winter
- Heidenröslein
- Hermann and Dorothea
- Der König in Thule
- Marienbad Elegy
- Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt
- Prometheus
- Roman Elegies
- The Sorcerer's Apprentice
- Welcome and Farewell
- Wanderer's Nightsong
- West–östlicher Divan
- Xenien
- Der Bürgergeneral
- Clavigo
- Faust
- Egmont
- Erwin und Elmire
- Götz von Berlichingen
- Iphigenia in Tauris
- The Magic Flute Part Two (libretto fragment)
- The Natural Daughter
- Stella
- Torquato Tasso
- Propyläen
- Christine Vulpius (wife)
- Catharina Elisabeth Goethe (mother)
- Goethean science
- Weimar Classicism
- Goethe-Institut
- Goethe House (Weimar)
- Goethe House (Frankfurt)
- Goethe-Gesellschaft
- Goethe Monument (Berlin)
- Goethe–Schiller Monument (Weimar)
- Goethe–Schiller Monument (Milwaukee)
- Goethe Prize
- Goethe Society of North America
- Goetheanum
- Goethe in the Roman Campagna (1787 painting)
- Goethe at the Window (1786/7 painting)
- Lotte in Weimar (1939 Thomas Mann novel)
- Lotte in Weimar (1975 film)
- A Man in Love (novel)
- Young Goethe in Love (2010 film)
- Pied Piper of Hamelin
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