Goethe's Summer retreat as seen in the Winter

…are sweetly mowing the lawn on a chilly afternoon in front of the garden house of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe which he used as a Summer retreat after his Italian journeys (previously mentioned here) and where he died in 1832 – but today I am in town for a talk at the invitation of Christine Hill at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar – a new version of the original Bauhaus first founded in Weimar in 1919 by Walter Gropius, though it later moved to Dessau, and finally Berlin before dissolving in 1933. (more on Weimar, Germany)