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Heinse, Johann Jakob Wilhelm

    Full Name: Heinse, Johann Jakob Wilhelm

    Gender: male

    Date Born: 1746

    Date Died: 1803

    Place Born: Langewiesen, Thuringia, Germany

    Place Died: Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, Germany

    Home Country/ies: Germany

    Subject Area(s): Ancient Greek (culture or style)


    Overview

    Romantic art historian; disagreed with Winckelmann on the importance of Greek art as a measure


    Selected Bibliography

    “Briefe aus der düsseldorfer Gemäldegalerie.” In Teutschem Merkur 1776 & 1777; Ardinghello und die glückselign Insel (novel) 1787.


    Sources

    KGK, 144-5; Schiff, Gert. “Introduction.” German Essays on Art History. New York: Continuum, 1988, pp. xvi-xix, 280; Metzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon: zweihundert Porträts deutschsprachiger Autoren aus vier Jahrhunderten. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1999, pp. 164-6.




    Citation

    "Heinse, Johann Jakob Wilhelm." Dictionary of Art Historians (website). https://arthistorians.info/heinsej/.


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