GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Autograph manuscript signed ('J.W. v. Goethe'), the first stanza of the poem 'Zum Neuen Jahr', Weimar, 24 June 1823.
8 lines on one page, 118 x 200mm, no doubt originally an album leaf (ink a little acidified, some discolouration from old paste on verso). Provenance: Sotheby's New York, Dec 7, 1999, lot 229; Stargardt, Mar 27, 2001, lot 97; Voerster caatlogue 42 (2015), no. 293; Schoyen MS 5531.
'Zwischen dem Alten,
Zwischen dem Neuen,
Hier uns zu freuen
Gönnt uns das Glück.
Und das Vergangene
Heist mit Vertrauen
Vorwärts zu schauen,
Schauen zurück'.
A poem for the New Year. The poem was originally written for the 'Mittwochskränzchen' – the Wednesday evening post-theatre gatherings which both Goethe and Schiller attended in Weimar of the winter of 1801-1802 – and was first published in 1804. Sophien-Ausgabe, vol. 1, p.107.
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Autograph manuscript signed ('J.W. v. Goethe'), the first stanza of the poem 'Zum Neuen Jahr', Weimar, 24 June 1823.
8 lines on one page, 118 x 200mm, no doubt originally an album leaf (ink a little acidified, some discolouration from old paste on verso). Provenance: Sotheby's New York, Dec 7, 1999, lot 229; Stargardt, Mar 27, 2001, lot 97; Voerster caatlogue 42 (2015), no. 293; Schoyen MS 5531.
'Zwischen dem Alten,
Zwischen dem Neuen,
Hier uns zu freuen
Gönnt uns das Glück.
Und das Vergangene
Heist mit Vertrauen
Vorwärts zu schauen,
Schauen zurück'.
A poem for the New Year. The poem was originally written for the 'Mittwochskränzchen' – the Wednesday evening post-theatre gatherings which both Goethe and Schiller attended in Weimar of the winter of 1801-1802 – and was first published in 1804. Sophien-Ausgabe, vol. 1, p.107.
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