Museum
Goethe House
Großer Hirschgraben 23-25, 60311 Frankfurt am Main-Innenstadt I
Rococo merchant's house where a boy watched painters at work in the attic during a wartime occupation.
This guide to the Goethe House in Frankfurt tells how, during the French occupation of 1759, the boy Johann Wolfgang von Goethe watched a foreign colonel turn the attic of his family's home into a working painter's studio. Johann Georg Trautmann, hired for the job, was known around Frankfurt for scenes lit by fire and candlelight, painting a cycle on the Old Testament story of Joseph.
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