In part one of a two-part program, draw your own graphic novel version of Goethe’s Faust. Inspired by Romantic etchings and prints based on Goethe’s drawing and writing on view in Objects and Voices.
Join the Smart and Goethe Institut for the related program Goethe Picnic in the Park on Saturday, May 23 in Lincoln Park.
Presented by the Smart Museum of Art and the Goethe Institut.
Image: Peter von Cornelius (designer) and Ferdinand Ruscheweyh (engraver), Valentin’s Death
(Valentins Tod), from Twelve Illustrations to Goethe’s Faust by Peter Cornelius (Bilder
zu Goethe’s Faust von P. Cornelius), 1816 (plate, this impression 1845), Engraving. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Gift of Stephen and Elizabeth Crawford, 2006.102.h.