Flammendes Leben: Sehnsucht, Erfüllung und Katastrophe im Leben Johann Joachim Winckelmanns - Softcover

Hecker, Jutta

 
9783940442321: Flammendes Leben: Sehnsucht, Erfüllung und Katastrophe im Leben Johann Joachim Winckelmanns

Synopsis

In a small German town, unnoticed by the world, a self-breeding boy grows up, who no one suspects that he would become the most important art connoisseur of his time. But soon it becomes clear that this serious boy knows not only to dream of antiquity, but can capture the meaning and effect of her works of art like no other and can dress in flaming words. "Flaming Life" traces the entwined paths of a man who discovers early that art is life and can be brought to view from dusty books. From the cramped conditions of his hometown Stendal, he fights freely, he breaks to study to Halle and Jena and finally finds the ideal of "noble simplicity and quiet size" realized in the eternal city of Rome. But at the height of his fame, the founder of archaeology and art history should find a tragic end. Clearly, detailed and moving, Jutta Hecker tells the life story of Johann Joachim Winckelmann. The 1st edition appeared in 1956 by Gebrüder Knabe Verlag.

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