Johann Joachim Winckelmann
![Portrait by [[Raphael Mengs]], after 1755](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Johann_Joachim_Winckelmann_%28Raphael_Mengs_after_1755%29.jpg)
He had a decisive influence on the rise of the Neoclassical movement during the late 18th century. His writings influenced not only a new science of archaeology and art history but Western painting, sculpture, literature and even philosophy. Winckelmann's ''History of Ancient Art'' (1764) was one of the first books written in German to become a classic of European literature. His subsequent influence on Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Hölderlin, Heinrich Heine, Friedrich Nietzsche, Stefan George and Oswald Spengler has been provocatively called "the Tyranny of Greece over Germany".
Winckelmann was homosexual, and open homoeroticism informed his writings on aesthetics. In 1752, he mentioned the "lust" which could be experienced with the "divine monarch" (i.e. Frederick the Great) in Potsdam in a similar way as in "Athens and Sparta", and which he could enjoy so immensely that he would never again be allowed to. His homosexuality was recognized by his contemporaries, such as Goethe. In 1768, at the age of 50, he was murdered by a fellow guest at his hotel for reasons that remain unclear. Provided by Wikipedia
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Published: 1996
Superior document: Schriften und Nachlaß 1
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Published: 2001
Superior document: Schriften und Nachlaß 2, Herkulanische Schriften, 3
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Published: 1997
Superior document: Schriften und Nachlaß 2, Herkulanische Schriften, 2
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Published: 1997
Superior document: Schriften und Nachlaß 2, Herkulanische Schriften, Teil 1
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Published: 1987
Superior document: Abhandlungen / Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse N.F., 95
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Published: 2001
Superior document: Schriften und Nachlaß 3
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Published: 2002
Superior document: Schriften und Nachlaß 4, Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums, 1
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Published: 1835
Superior document: Johann Winckelmanns sämtliche Werke dabei ... ausführliche Biographie des Autors ; unter dem Texte die frühern und viele neuen Citate und Noten ; die allerwärts gesammelten Briefe nach der Zeitordnung, Fragmente, Abbildungen und vierfacher Index
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Published: 2008
Superior document: Schriften und Nachlaß 4,4
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Published: 2003
Superior document: Schriften und Nachlaß 5,1
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Published: [2021]
Superior document: Schriften und Nachlaß Band 6 3
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Published: [2021]
Superior document: Schriften und Nachlaß Band 11
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Published: 1860
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