SHARING WITH ME

This exhibition is about tradition and periods. What had pushed me to go and see it in the first place, was this picture which has been seen all over Paris. Johan Henirich Wilhelm Tischbein (1751-1829) - whom I had of course never heard of. I was pretty sure that the painting was of Goethe but what fascinated me was that his hat didn’t seem to be on his head - or far too large and  his left leg under the coat didn’t seem to belong to him either. When I saw the painting I felt the same and yet it is a very striking and compelling image of Goethe. A great thinker and philisopher of course, but where was he? A traveller going where? Or could it be that the picture identifies him as a traveller in thinking and it really doesn’t matter where he is? Tischbein - Goethe dans la campagne romaine 1787 The exhibition at the Louvre is  called Germany - From Friedrich to Beckmann carries over 200 works dating from 1800-1939. As you may gather it was the last period which interested me the mos