The Cabinet of Doctor Faust: Goethe's Drama in 19th-Century Illustration (Graphic Arts Cabinet)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play Faust ranks among the key works of world literature, and its representation in the fine arts also constitutes an important chapter in the history of 19th-century art. Illustrations for Faust were created both by artists whose fame has endured to this day and by those who have fallen into oblivion – Peter von Cornelius, Moritz Retzsch, Eugène Delacroix, Engelbert Seibertz, Gabriel von Max. This publication maps these illustrations housed in the Collection of Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery in Prague, and by means of these artworks documents the transformations in the style of illustration during the course of the 19th century.