Abstract:Goethe’s essay Einfache Nachahmung der Natur, Manier, Stil is steeped in an analogy: The life science of botany serves as an aesthetic foil, botany and art are set in parallel – to show how Goethe develops this, and what it implies, is the aim of this paper.
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