ARTE – Johann Winckelmann: The Love of Art (2017)
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Johann J. Winckelmann was devoted to beauty, especially the works of antiquity. A TV documentary commemorating the 250th anniversary of his death now tells the story of his life and work.
He described his love of art as his greatest passion: Johann Joachim Winckelmann, the champion and rediscoverer of Greek and Roman antiquity. Winckelmann initiated modern art history and scientific archaeology. He was a bibliophile: Johann Joachim Winckelmann, born on December 9, 1717, in Stendal, and died on June 8, 1768, in Trieste, was a German archaeologist, librarian, antiquarian, and art writer during the Enlightenment.
Winckelmann was born in Stendal in the Altmark region (now Saxony-Anhalt), the son of a poor shoemaker. School bored him, and he learned Greek and Latin at an early age. Later, the craftsman’s son found wealthy patrons who financed his studies in medicine and anatomy. He interrupted his studies several times and was considered a restless man who lived in the Baroque era, which he found particularly repugnant in its bombast and excess. He had to work hard for everything he achieved – in his letters, he describes his student years and his time as a teacher almost exclusively as a period of drudgery and suffering. He managed on little sleep and was also fortunate in life: in 1748, he was appointed librarian to Count Heinrich von Bünau at Nöthnitz Castle near Dresden, where he oversaw the 42,000-volume private library, open to the public. Fifteen years later, he was appointed Commissioner of Antiquities (Commissario delle Antichità) in Rome by Pope Clement XIII, for which Winckelmann had converted to Catholicism.
For Winckelmann, beauty was the ultimate measure of all things, and thus he became a true master of good taste. His most famous saying is probably “Noble simplicity, quiet grandeur,” and he admired the art of the stylistically assured Greeks, not least through his work “Thoughts on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture” (1755). In doing so, he paved the way for Neoclassicism-in his view, people and art should distance themselves from Rococo and Baroque and instead rediscover Greek and Roman antiquity.
Author Christian Feyerabend (“The Germans”) paints a successful portrait, offering thorough insights into the world of antiquity. The film features art historians, Germanists, and the chief curator of the Dresden Sculpture Collection, Dr. Kordelia Knoll: “Winckelmann also wrote for the general public, with which he was very successful. Through his beautiful, poetic writing, he made history.”
Winckelmann always spoke remarkably openly about his homosexuality, which plays a major role in his works, and he likely lived it as well. Unfortunately, this, coupled with a certain naiveté, probably led to his downfall. His hours-long death in a spartan hotel room, while still lucid, forms the framework of the film, drawing interesting parallels to the present day.
Written & Directed by Christian Feyerabend ; Gruppe 5 Filmproduktion GmbH on commission for ZDF in co-operation with ARTE
Narrator: Philipp Schepmann
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