Johann Goethe Monument (Chicago, Illinois)

USA / Illinois / Chicago / Chicago, Illinois
 statue, monument
Author of Faust: www.gutenberg.org/files/14460/14460-8.txt

Dedicated by the German Community of Chicago in 1912. The statue, clad in a loin cloth, was designed to invoke images of ancient Greek literature and reason, which inspired Goethe.

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goethe
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Coordinates:   41°55'57"N   87°38'18"W

Comments

  • The sculptor did the diservice of giving Goethe an open lioncloth, but not modeling genetalia, an unfortunate substitute for the modesty that clothes would have imparted, or the dignity that male organs would have conferred.
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