Johann Joachim Winckelmann

Lithography by Heinrich Wilhelm Teichgräber, 1839.
Born	December 9, 1717(1717-12-09) Stendal, Margraviate of Brandenburg, Holy Roman Empire (today Saxony-Anhalt, Germany)
Died	June 8, 1768(1768-06-08) (aged 50) Trieste
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Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768) was a German art historian and archaeologist. He was a pioneering Hellenist who first articulated the difference between Greek, Greco-Roman and Roman art.

Works

Gedanken über die Nachahmung der griechischen Werke in der Malerey und Bildhauerkunst, 2nd ed., 1756. View.

Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums, 1, 1764. View.

Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums, 2, 1764. View.

(in German unless noted)

• Gedanken über die Nachahmung der griechischen Werke in der Malerey und Bildhauerkunst, 1755; 2nd ed., Dresden and Leipzig: Walther, 1756; repr. Stuttgart: G.J. Goeschensche, 1885; Stuttgart: Reclam, 1986. First edition of only 50 copies. Another two essays, "Sendschreiben über die Gedanken.." and "Erläuterung der Gedanken..", are included in the volume since its second edition, the former being a counter-attack on the work, the latter a response to it; both authored by Winckelmann. [1] [2]
  • Reflections on the painting and sculpture of the Greeks: with instructions for the connoisseur, and an essay on grace in works of art, trans. Henry Fusseli, London: Millar, 1765; London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1999. (in English)
  • Reflections on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture, trans. Elfriede Heyer and Roger C. Norton, Open Court, 1986, 100 pages. (in English) [3]
  • Réflexions sur l'imitation des œuvres grecques dans la sculpture et la peinture, trans. Marianne Charrière, Paris: Jacqueline Chambon, 1998, 157 pp. (in French)
  • Pensées sur l'imitation des œuvres grecques en peinture et en sculpture, trans. Laure Cahen-Maurel, Paris: Allia, 2005. (in French)
  • "Thoughts on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and the Art of Sculpture", "Open Letter on Thoughts on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and the Art of Sculpture" and "Explanation of Thoughts on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and the Art of Sculpture", trans. David Carter, in Johann Joachim Winckelmann on Art, Architecture, and Archaeology, Camden House, 2013, pp 31-55, 57-80 and 81-114. (in English) [4]
• Description des pierres gravées du feu Baron de Stosch, Florence: Bonducci, 1760. (in French). On precious stones in the collection of Heinrich Wilhelm Muzell-Stosch who invited Winckelmann to Florence to draw up its catalogue, with the aim of selling it, after his uncle, the Baron von Stosch died; Winckelmann spent in Florence the period from September 1758 till August 1759.
• Sendschreiben von den Herculanischen Entdeckungen, Dresden: Walther, 1762. [5] [6]. Report from the excavations in the ancient sites of Herculaneum and Pompeii written in the form of a long letter to the Count von Brühl in Dresden.
  • Lettre de M. l'abbé Winckelmann, antiquaire de Sa Sainteté, a monsieur le comte de Brühl, Paris: Tilliard, 1764. (in French)
  • Critical Account of the Situation and Destruction by the First Eruptions of Mount Vesuvius of Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Stabia, London, 1771. (in English)
• Abhandlung von der Fähigkeit der Empfindung des Schönen in der Kunst und dem Unterrichte in derselben, Dresden: Walther, 1763; repr., Dresden: Walther, 1771.
  • "Des réflexions sur le sentiment du beau dans les ouvrages de l’art et sur les moyens de l’acquérir", in Winckelmann, Recueil de différentes pièces sur les arts, Paris: Barrois, 1786, pp 233-282; Adamant Media, 2001. (in French) [7]
  • "Pojednání o schopnosti vnímat krásno v umění a jejím vzdělávání", trans. Jiří Stromšík, in Winckelmann, Dějiny umění starověku. Stati, Prague: Odeon, 1986, pp 344-358. (in Czech)
  • "Essay on the Capacity for the Sentiment for the Beautiful in Art, and on Instruction in it", trans. Curtis Bowman, in Winckelmann, Essays on the Philosophy and History of Art, Vol. 1, Thoemmes Press, 2001, pp xix-xlvii. (in English)
  • "Treatise on the Capacity for Sentiment to the Beautiful in Art and the Method of Teaching It", trans. David Carter, in Johann Joachim Winckelmann on Art, Architecture, and Archaeology, Camden House, 2013, pp 149-169. (in English)
• Nachrichten von den neuesten Herculanischen Entdeckungen, Dresden: Walther, 1764. Report from the excavations in the ancient sites of Herculaneum and Pompeii written in the form of a long letter to J.H. Fuessli in Zürich.
  • Letter and Report on the Discoveries at Herculaneum, trans. Carrol C. Mattusch, J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011, 230 pp. First English translation. Review, Review.
• Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums, Band 1 [8], Band 2, Dresden: Walther, 1764; repr. Band 1 [9], Band 2 [10], Vienna: Akademischen Verlag, 1776; repr. Berlin: Heimann, 1870; Vienna: Phaidon, 1934; Berlin: Safari, 1942; repr., ed. Wilhelm Senff, Weimar: H. Böhlaus, 1964; Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1993.
  • Histoire de l'art chez les Anciens, Tome 1, Tome 2, trans. Gottfried Sellius, Amsterdam: Harrevelt, 1766. (in French)
  • Histoire de l'art de l'antiquité, Tome 1 [11], Tome 2 [12], Tome 3 [13], trans. Michel Huber, Leipzig: Breitkopf, 1781; repr. as Histoire de l'art chez les Anciens, Tome 1, Tome 2, Tome 3, trans. Michel Huber, Paris: Barrois & Savoye, 1789; rev. by Hendrik Jansen, T 1 [14], T 2, 1793; new ed., T 1, T 2, Partie 1, T 2, Partie 2, Paris: Gide, 1801-03. (in French)
  • Storia delle arti del disegno presso gli antichi, Tomo 1, Tomo 2, Tomo 3, trans. Carlo Fea, Rome: Pagliarini, 1783-84. (in Italian)
  • The History of Ancient Art Among the Greeks [Vol. 2], trans. G. Henry Lodge, London: John Chapman, 1850. Translation of both volumes as The History of the Ancient Art, Vol. 1 (Book I-III), Vol. 2 (Book IV-V), Vol. 3 (Book VI-XII], trans. G. Henry Lodge, Boston: James R. Osgood, 1872-73, with an essay "Life of Winckelmann". (in English)
  • Dějiny umění starověku. Stati, trans. Jiří Stromšík, Prague: Odeon, 1986, 441 pp. (in Czech)
  • Storia dell'arte nell'antichità, trans. Maria Ludovica Pampaloni, Milano: SE, 1990. (in Italian)
  • Historia del arte en la antiguedad, Iberia, 2000; Folio, 2003. (in Spanish)
  • Histoire de l'art dans l'Antiquité, trans. Dominique Tassel, Livre de Poche, 2005, 873 pp. (in French)
  • History of the Art of Antiquity, trans. Harry Mallgrave, Getty Research Institute, 2006, 446 pp. (in English) [15] [16]
• Versuch einer Allegorie, besonders für die Kunst, Dresden, 1766; repr., ed. Albert Dressel, Dresden: Mendelssohn, 1866. [17]
  • Saggio sull'allegoria, specialmente per l'arte, ed. Elena Agazzi, Bologna: Minerva, 2004. (in Italian)
• Anmerkungen über die Baukunst der Alten, Dresden: Walther, 1767.
  • Remarques sur l'architecture des anciens, trans. Hendrik Jansen, Paris: Barrois, 1783. (in French)
• Monumenti antichi inediti spiegati ed illustrati da Giovanni Winckelmann prefetto delle antichità di Roma, Vol 1, Vol 2, Rome, self-published, 1767; 2nd ed., Tomo 1, Tomo 2, 1821. (in Italian). Produced with the financial support of Cardinal Albani and others, with printing costs covered by Winckelmann.
  • Monumens inédits de l'antiquité statues, peintures antiques, pierres gravées, bas-reliefs de marbre et de terre cuite, Tome 1, Tome 2, Tome 3, trans. A.-F. Désodoards, Paris: L. Paravicin, 1808. (in French)
  • Alte Denkmäler der Kunst, trans. Friedrich Leopold Brunn, Berlin: Christian Gottfried Schöne, 1780; 2nd ed., Band 1, Band 2, 1791-92; Berlin: Schöne, 1804.

More

• Winckelmann's works in UB Bielefeld (in German).
• Winckelmann's works in UB Heidelberg
• Winckelmann's works in Projekt Gutenberg-DE

Correspondence

• Briefe an Herrn H., Leipzig: Carl Friederich Schneidern, 1776; repr. in Deutsches Museum, Vol. 1 (1776), pp 67-79, 168-177 and 253-279.
• Briefe an seine Freunde, 2 Vols, Dresden: Walther, 1777-80.
• Briefe an seine Freunde in der Schweiz, Zürich: Orell, Gessner und Füesslin, 1778.
• Briefe an Einen seiner vertrautesten Freunde in den Jahren 1756 bis 1768, Band 1, Band 2, Berlin and Stettin, 1781.
• Lettres familières, Partie 1, Partie 2, Paris: Couturier, 1781; repr. Tome 1, Tome 2, Tome 3, Yverdon, 1784. (in French)
• Winkelmann und sein Jahrhundert: In Briefen und Aufsätzen, ed. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Tübingen: J.G. Cotta, 1805.
• Briefe an seine Züricher Freunde, Freiburg and Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1882.
• Briefen, Bd. 1, ed. Richard Meszlényi, Berlin: B. Behr, 1913.
• Winckelmanns kleine Schriften und Briefe, Bd. 2: Ausgewählte Briefe, ed. Hermann Uhde-Bernays, Leipzig: Insel, 1925.
• Briefe, 4 Vols, eds. Walther Rehm and Hans Diepolder, Berlin: De Gruyter, 1952-57.

Collected writings

• Recueil de différentes pièces sur les arts, trans. Hendrik Jansen and Michael Huber, Paris: Barrois, 1786; Adamant Media, 2001, 306 pp. (in French). Selection from texts published between 1755 and 1769. [18]
• Winkelmann und sein Jahrhundert: In Briefen und Aufsätzen, ed. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Tübingen: J.G. Cotta, 1805.
• Werke, Bd. 1, Bd. 2, Bd. 3, Bd. 4, Bd. 5, Bd. 6, Bd. 7, Bd. 8, ed. C.L. Fernow, Dresden: Walther, 1808-20.
• Johann Winckelmanns sämtliche Werke: dabei Porträt, Facsimile und ausführliche Biographie des Autors; unter dem Texte die frühern und viele neue Citate und Noten; die allerwärts gesammelten Briefe nach der Zeitordnung, Fragmente, Abbildungen und vierfacher Index, 12 Vols, ed. Joseph Eiselein, Donaueschingen: Deutscher Classiker, 1825-29; repr. Osnabrück, 1965.
• Opere di G. G. Winckelmann, 12 Vols, Prato: Per i Fratelli Giachetti, 1830-34. (in Italian)
• Ausgewählte Schriften, Leipzig: Insel, 1920.
• Winckelmanns kleine Schriften und Briefe, Bd. 1: Kleine Schriften zur Geschichte der Kunst des Altertums, ed. Hermann Uhde-Bernays, Leipzig: Insel, 1925.
• Il bello nell'arte. Scritti sull'arte antica, ed. Federico Pfister, Torino: G. Einaudi, 1942. (in Italian)
• Kleine Schriften, Vorreden, Entwürfe, ed. Walther Rehm, Weimar: Böhlau, 1960; Berlin: De Gruyter, 1968; 2002.
• Selected Writings on Art, ed. David Irwin, London: Phaidon, 1972. (in English)
• Werke, ed. Helmut Holtzhauer, Berlin: Aufbau, 3rd ed., 1982, 382 pp.
• Unbekannte Schriften, ed. S. von Moisy, H. Stichtermann and L. Tavernier, Munich: Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1987.
• Schriften und Nachlaß, 7 Vols, eds. Adolf H. Borbein, Max Kunzeed, et al., Mainz: Zabern, 1996 ff.
• Essays on the Philosophy and History of Art, 3 Vols, ed. Curtis Bowman, Thoemmes Press, 2001. (in English)
• Winckelmann's Images from the Ancient World: Greek, Roman, Etruscan and Egyptian, ed. Stanley Appelbaum, Dover Publications, 2010, 176 pp. (in English)
• Johann Joachim Winckelmann on Art, Architecture, and Archaeology, trans. David Carter, Camden House, 2013. (in English) [19]

Selected passages

on the Laocoön

• "II.E.a, Von der Statue des Laocoon", in Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums, II, Dresden: Walther, 1764, pp 347-350; repr. as "Laokoon", in Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums, Weimar: H. Böhlaus, 1964, p 276-278.
  • "III.A.b., Agesander, Polydorus und Athenodorus; und von ihrem Werke dem Laocoon", in Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums, II, Vienna: Akademischen Verlag, 1776, pp 696-701.
  • "X.I.11-17, Agesander, Polydorus, and Athenodorus, and their Work, Laocoön", in The History of the Ancient Art, Vol. 3, trans. G. Henry Lodge, Boston: James R. Osgood, 1873, pp 228-232, n453 [20]. (in English)
  • "II.E.a, The statue of Laokoon", in History of the Art of Antiquity, trans. Harry Mallgrave, Getty Research Institute, 2006, pp 313-314, n357-358. (in English)

on the Belvedere Torso

• "III.K, "Insbesondere die Beschreibung des verstümmelten Herkules im Belvedere", in Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums, II, Dresden: Walther, 1764, pp 368-372; repr. as "Der Torso des Herkules", in Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums, Weimar: H. Böhlaus, 1964, p 292-294.
  • "IV.F.b, Beschreibung des Sturzes dieses Herkules", in Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums, II, Vienna: Akademischen Verlag, 1776, pp 742-748.
  • "X.III.15-21, (Of the Torso in the Belvedere)", in The History of the Ancient Art, Vol. 3, trans. G. Henry Lodge, Boston: James R. Osgood, 1873, pp 263-267, n461-462 [21]. (in English)
• "Beschreibung des Torso im Belvedere zu Rom", Bibliothek der schönen Wissenschaften und der freyen Künste V (1759), pp 33-41; repr. in Winckelmann, Versuch einer Allegorie, besonders für die Kunst, Dresden, 1766, pp 155-158; repr. in Winckelmann, Kleine Schriften, Vorreden, Entwürfe, Berlin: De Gruyter, 1968, pp 169-173.
  • "Description of the Torso in the Belvedere in Rome", trans. Curtis Bowman, in Winckelmann, Essays on the Philosophy and History of Art, Vol. 1, Thoemmes Press, 2001, pp xiii-xviii. (in English)
  • "Description of the Torso in the Belvedere in Rome", trans. David Carter, in Johann Joachim Winckelmann on Art, Architecture, and Archaeology, Camden House, 2013, pp 143-148. (in English)
  • "III.K, Description of the mutilated Herakles in the Belvedere in particular", in History of the Art of Antiquity, trans. Harry Mallgrave, Getty Research Institute, 2006, pp 323-324, n361-362. (in English)

on the Apollo Belvedere

• "IV.F.b.aa, Apollo im Belvedere. Beschreibung desselben", in Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums, Bd. 2, Dresden: Walther, 1764, pp 392-394; repr. as "Die Statue des Apollo", in Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums, Weimar: H. Böhlaus, 1964, pp 309-310.
  • "V.B.e.hh, Beschreibung des Apollo im Belvedere", in Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums, II, Vienna: Akademischen Verlag, 1776, pp 814-817.
  • "XI.III.11, Description of the Apollo Belvedere", in The History of the Ancient Art, Vol. 3, trans. G. Henry Lodge, Boston: James R. Osgood, 1873, pp 312-314, n478-479 [22]. (in English)
  • "IV.F.B.aa, The Apollo in the Belvedere: Description of it", in History of the Art of Antiquity, trans. Harry Mallgrave, Getty Research Institute, 2006, pp 333-334, n366. (in English)

on the Meleager (Belvedere Antinous)

• "IV.I.c, Beschreibung des fälschlich sogenannten Antinous im Belvedere", in Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums, II, Dresden: Walther, 1764, pp 409-410; repr. as "Der Antinous im Belvedere", in Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums, Weimar: H. Böhlaus, 1964, p 320-322.
  • "V.B.cc.γ.ββ.٦‎, Von dem irrig sogenannten Antinous, oder dem Meleager im Belvedere", in Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums, II, Vienna: Akademischen Verlag, 1776, pp 844-845.
  • "XII.I.20, Of the Antinoüs, erroneously so called, or the Meleager in the Belvedere", in The History of the Ancient Art, Vol. 3, trans. G. Henry Lodge, Boston: James R. Osgood, 1873, pp 336-337, n489 [23]. (in English)
  • "IV.I.c, The Apollo in the Belvedere: Description of it", in History of the Art of Antiquity, trans. Harry Mallgrave, Getty Research Institute, 2006, pp 341, n370. (in English)

External links

• Winckelmann Museum, Stendal.
• Winckelmann-Instituts der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Biography on the website of EGS