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.