As a contribution to the research into the history of the reception of Goethe’s work On the Theory of Colors, published in 1810, and of the Prussian cultural policy in the age of Restoration, an extensive collection of historical documents has been compiled. This repository is the result of a project funded by the German Research Foundation and the Swiss National Fund. It is freely accessible and archived for the long term and contains extracts from secondary sources as well as many archival documents that have been published and edited for the first time. The documents prove that Karl vom Stein zum Altenstein and the Prussian Ministry of Culture, which he headed, had a special interest in promoting scientists and artists who intended to disseminate and further develop the ideas contained in Goethe's work On the Theory of Colors. The guiding texts assembled in this volume organize the documents along select perspectives and thus provide a detailed picture of the support efforts as well as the ministry’s working methods, of the impact of those activities on some actors’ biographies, and of the reactions of Goethe and his circle. The appendix presents three extensive documents, and the indices of sources and literature link this publication to the repository and the literature database of the web presentation.

Publication Type: Monograph

Publication Category: Varia

Language: German

ISBN: 978-3-86395-575-5 (Print)

URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:7-isbn-978-3-86395-575-5-9

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