Jean-Claude Golvin

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JC Golvins desk in an exhibition in Vieux-la-Romaine

Jean-Claude Golvin (born December 18, 1942 in Sfax , Tunisia ) is a French architect , archaeologist and Egyptologist . He is best known for his numerous reconstruction drawings of ancient sites.

Biography and work

The son of Maghreb specialist Lucien Golvin studied after school years in Algiers from 1962 to 1969 at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris and the École d'architecture de Marseille and obtained a diploma (DPLG) as an architect and, after a few years of activity as an architect in a Paris office, 1972 a diploma (DIUP) as an urban planner.

As early as the 1960s he was a member of the French archaeological delegation in Haïdra, Tunisia, involved in the excavations of ancient Ammaedara . This was followed by works on the amphitheater of El Djem from 1973 to 1976 . Even later he was active in various functions in excavations and research in Tunisia.

He has worked at the Center national de la recherche scientifique since 1976 , at the end of the 1970s under Robert Étienne on the studies and publication on the French excavations in Conimbriga , Portugal , before taking on management positions at the permanent French for a decade (until 1990) Mission in Karnak and Luxor took over. During this time he also received his doctorate (1985) with a thesis on Roman amphitheaters at the Université de Bordeaux III .

From 1992 until his retirement in 2008 he was directeur de recherche at the CNRS at the Institut Ausonius at the University of Bordeaux. During this time he was involved in researching several ancient sites in Tunisia and for seven years in studies on the reconstruction of the Circus Maximus in Rome .

One focus of his activity since the late 1980s has been the production of reconstructions (usually created as watercolored ink drawings ), from individual monuments such as the amphitheater in El Djem or the Colosseum in Rome to entire urban complexes, such as the ancient one Alexandria , the ancient Arelate (now Arles ) or the ancient Lutetia (now Paris ). These works have been published in numerous publications and have been shown in more than two dozen exhibitions on archaeological topics since 1995, mainly in France, but also in the Netherlands , Belgium , Spain , Cyprus , Israel , Tunisia and Egypt . At the end of 2010 he donated the previous stock of his studio (around 800 drawings and watercolors were estimated before the handover, in fact the total of the works then amounted to over 1000) to the Musée départemental Arles antique , which then held a major retrospective in 2011/2012.

In 2018, the first part of a two-part historical comic was published, with which the illustrator, supported by the author Chantal Alibert , fulfills a childhood dream.

Fonts (selection)

(Except for the German Karnak publication from 1990, only popular scientific works by Golvin are listed here.)

  • German:
    • Karnak, Egypt. Anatomy of a temple. Wasmuth, Tübingen 1990 (together with Jean-Claude Goyon, publication for a series of exhibitions, German edition of Les bâtisseurs de Karnak )
    • Ancient metropolises. Theiss, Stuttgart 2005 (texts by ten authors, German edition of L'antiquité retrouvée , significantly revised compared to the French edition from 2003), 2., exp. Zabern, Darmstadt 2019 (without list of authors, German edition of the French 3rd edition, but still not identical)
    • Monuments of power. The world of the Roman emperors. Theiss, Stuttgart 2008 (texts by Catherine Salles, German edition of Voyage chez les empereurs romains )
    • Travel in the Roman Empire. From Bliesbruck-Reinheim to Rome. Éditions Errance, Arles / Paris 2010 (publication for an exhibition, German edition of Pérégrinations dans l'Empire romain )
    • The architects of the empire. wbg Zabern, Darmstadt 2020 (texts by Gérard Coulon, German edition of Le génie civil de l'armée romaine )
  • French:
    • L'Égypte restituée. Sites et temples. 3 volumes, Éditions Errance, Paris 1994–1997 (together with Sydney Hervé Aufrère and Jean-Claude Goyon)
      • Tome 1, Sites, et temples de Haute Égypte. De l'apogée de la civilization pharaonique à l'époque gréco-romaine. 1994, 2nd edition 1997
      • Tome 2, Sites et temples des deserts. De la renaissance de la civilization pharaonique à l'époque gréco-romaine. 1994
      • Tome 3, Sites, temples et pyramides de Moyenne et Basse Égypte. De la renaissance de la civilization pharaonique à l'époque gréco-romaine. 1997 ( does not include Alexandria )
    • Voyage en Egypt ancienne. Actes Sud / Errance, Arles / Paris 1999 (together with Aude Gros de Beler; including Alexandria )
    • L'Afrique antique. History and monuments. Tallandier, Paris 2001 (texts by André Laronde)
    • Voyage en Gaule romaine. Éditions Errance, 1st edition Paris 2002, 3rd edition Arles / Paris 2011 (texts by Gérard Coulon)
    • L'antiquité retrouvée. Éditions Errance, Paris 2003 (texts by Gérard Coulon, Aude Gros de Beler, Frédéric Lontcho), 2nd edition Arles / Paris 2005, 3rd, reviewed, corrected and expanded edition Arles / Paris 2015 (texts by Gérard Coulon, Aude Gros de Beler, Frédéric Lontcho)
    • Voyages sur la Méditerranée romaine. Éditions Errance, Arles / Paris 2005 (texts by Michel Reddé)
    • Voyage chez les empereurs romains. Éditions Errance, Arles / Paris 2006 (texts by Catherine Salles)
    • Rome antique retrouvée (= Promenades archéologiques ). Éditions Errance, Arles / Paris 2008
    • Pérégrinations dans l'Empire romain. De Bliesbruck-Reinheim à Rome. Éditions Errance, Arles / Paris 2010 (publication accompanying an exhibition)
    • La Gaule retrouvée. Voyage avec Strabon (= Promenades archéologiques ). Éditions Errance, Arles / Paris 2011 (texts by Patrick Thollard and Strabon )
    • L'amphithéâtre romain et les jeux du cirque dans le monde antique (= Collection archéologie vivante ). Éditions Archeologie Nouvelle, Lacapelle-Marival 2012
    • Le stade et le cirque antiques. Sport et courses de chevaux dans le monde gréco-romain (= Collection archéologie vivante ). Éditions Archeologie Nouvelle, Lacapelle-Marival 2012
    • Les plus beaux sites archéologiques de la baie de Naples. Pompéi, Herculanum, Oplontis, Misène, Baia, Cumes, Pouzzoles, Capoue, Capri ... (= Collection archéologie vivante ). Éditions Archeologie Nouvelle, Lacapelle-Marival 2012 (together with Jean-Pierre Brun and Frédéric Lontcho)
    • Le théâtre romain et ses spectacles (= Collection archéologie vivante ). Editions Archeologie Nouvelle, Lacapelle-Marival 2013
    • Hérode. Le roi architecte. Éditions Errance, Arles / Paris 2014 (texts by Jean-Michel Roddaz)
    • Le génie civil de l'armée romaine. Actes Sud / Errance, Arles 2018 (texts by Gérard Coulon)

Comic

  • Quadrature. 1. La pyramid de cristal. Passé Simple, Narbonne 2018 (text by Chantal Alibert)

literature

  • Jean-Claude Golvin. Un architecte au coeur de l'histoire. Musée départemental Arles antique, 22 Octobre 2011 - 6 May 2012. Éditions Errance, Paris 2011. ISBN 978-2-87772-466-1 (publication accompanying an exhibition)

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ List of publications in the catalog for the exhibition in Arles 2011/2012, pp. 187–201; including over 100 scientific and over 100 popular scientific works as monographs or for magazines (including individually made reconstructions)
  2. ^ Exhibition directory in the catalog for the exhibition in Arles 2011/2012, pp. 202–203
  3. ↑ All information and data taken from the catalog for the exhibition in Arles 2011/2012: Jean-Claude Golvin. Un architecte au coeur de l'histoire
  4. ↑ From the foreword by Gérard Coulon in La pyramide de cristal
personal data
SURNAME Golvin, Jean-Claude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French architect and archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Sfax