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Updated: May 11, 2025
Even Kniep he accepted with a good grace, though not without misgivings. He needed a man who would execute for him sketches and paintings of all that in the districts passed through was worthy of record. He had already 'heard Kniep highly spoken of as a clever draughtsman only his industry was not much commended. Our hearts sink.
Throughout the Sicilian tour Goethe gives the rosiest reports of the young man's cheerful ways and strict attention to the business of sketching. It may be that these reports were coloured partly by a desire to set Tischbein down. But there seems to be no doubt that Goethe liked Kniep greatly and rejoiced in the quantity and quality of his work.
At Palermo, one evening, Goethe sat reading Homer and 'making an impromptu translation for the benefit of Kniep, who had well deserved by his diligent exertions this day some agreeable refreshment over a glass of wine. This is a pleasing little scene, and is typical of the whole tour. In the middle of May, Goethe returned Naples. And lo! Tischbein was not there to receive him.
Be off, and leave me to enjoy myself in Naples-on-Sea Naples, the Queen of Watering Places! He spoke of work which he had undertaken, and recommended as travelling companion for Goethe a young man of the name of Kniep. Goethe, we may be sure, was restrained by pride from any show of wrath. Pride compelled him to make light of the matter in his epistles to the Weimarians.
'I have tolerably studied his character, and think the ground of this censure arises rather from a want of decision, which may certainly be overcome, if we are long together. Our hearts sink lower. Kniep will never do. Kniep will play the deuce, we are sure of it.
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