Day
Cleveland Museum of Art

Day

Philipp Otto Runge (German, 1777–1810) · 1803–5

etching on heavy wove paper
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

After receiving a set of <em>Times of Day</em> 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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