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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
E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)
poet, painter, playwright
- Harvard University, Cambridge Rindge and Latin School
Mitsumasa Anno (1926-2020)
illustrator, painter
William Morris (1834-1896)
architect, poet, designer, graphic designer, painter, politician, illustrator
- University of Oxford, Marlborough College
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
playwright, translator, poet, painter, literary critic
- University of Nottingham, University of London
John Lennon (1940-1980)
record producer, actor, guitarist, film producer, poet, composer, film actor, pianist, singer, painter, film director, public figure, peace activist, political activist, recording artist
- Liverpool College of Art, Calderstones School
Alfred Kubin (1877-1959)
painter, etcher, illustrator, photographer, drawer
- Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
Samuel Lover (1797-1868)
painter, composer