GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Philipp Hackert. Biographische Skizze, meist nach dessen eigenen Aufsätzen entworfen. Tübingen: J.G. Cotta, 1811.
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Philipp Hackert. Biographische Skizze, meist nach dessen eigenen Aufsätzen entworfen. Tübingen: J.G. Cotta, 1811.
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GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Philipp Hackert. Biographische Skizze, meist nach dessen eigenen Aufsätzen entworfen. Tübingen: J.G. Cotta, 1811.

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GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Philipp Hackert. Biographische Skizze, meist nach dessen eigenen Aufsätzen entworfen. Tübingen: J.G. Cotta, 1811.

First complete edition of the first biography of German landscape painter Philipp Hackert (1737-1807). Goethe became acquainted with the artist, who worked predominantly in Italy, during a visit to Naples in 1786. A chapter had first appeared earlier in 1811 in the journal Morgenblatt für gebildete Stände (see Hagen 678). Hagen 357.

Octavo (197 x 118mm). Contemporary marbled boards, paper spine label lettered in early manuscript.
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