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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
theatre manager, botanist, politician, painter, philosopher, theologian, jurist, art critic, music critic, librarian, poet, physicist, literary, playwright, autobiographer, diplomat, statesperson, polymath, aphorist, diarist, mineralogist, zoologist, art theorist, lawyer, composer, librettist, visual artist, art historian
- Leipzig University, University of Strasbourg
Albert Uderzo (1927-2020)
comics artist, painter, film director, colorist, illustrator, drawer, visual artist
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
playwright, translator, poet, painter, literary critic
- University of Nottingham, University of London
Tahar Ben Jelloun (born 1947)
poet, psychotherapist, painter
- Mohammed V University
E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822)
composer, judge, caricaturist, painter, conductor, music critic, drawer, diarist, critic, director
- University of Königsberg
Chris Priestley (born 1958)
illustrator, painter
- Manchester Metropolitan University
Gilberto Freyre (1900-1987)
anthropologist, sociologist, poet, painter, journalist, politician, historian
- Columbia University, Baylor University
Leo Lionni (1910-1999)
graphic designer, illustrator, painter, designer