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Philipp Otto Runge

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1803–5
etching on heavy wove paper

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

After receiving a set of Times of Day as a gift from the artist, the German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) apparently exclaimed, “it’s enough to drive you crazy—beautiful, and mad at the same time!”

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