Antico Caffè Greco
The Antico Caffè Greco , or Caffè Greco for short , is a café in Via Condotti near the Spanish Steps that has existed since the mid-18th century . It was one of the last great artist cafés in Rome .
history
The cafe was founded by a Greek, which explains its name. Foreign, often German, painters, poets and other artists have met there since 1760. This was favored by the proximity of the café to the diplomatic missions of France and Spain as well as to numerous hotels. According to a description from 1804, it was then kept in the simple style of a restaurant. The most famous guest is likely to have been Johann Wolfgang von Goethe during his stay in Rome. The Austrian painter Ludwig Passini (1832–1903) depicted some artist colleagues such as Wilhelm Wider in his painting Artists in Cafe Greco in Rome from 1856 . The picture is in the Hamburger Kunsthalle . The German writer ETA Hoffmann also set a literary monument to the Caffè Greco in the third and seventh chapters by Princess Brambilla .
In 1953 the Italian Ministry of Culture declared the café a “Monument of Historical and National Interest”.
literature
- Emerich Boyer von Berghof: The Café Greco in Rome. For the anniversary of its centenary . With six illustrations. In: Reclams Universum: Moderne Illustrierte Wochenschrift 27.1 (1911), pp. 420-423.
- Georg Poensgen : C. Ph. Fohr and the Café Gréco . The artist portraits of the Heidelberg romantic in the historical context of the famous restaurant on Via Condotte in Rome. Heidelberg 1957.
- Dieter Richter: From court to Rome. Johann Christian Reinhart, a German painter in Italy. A biography . Transit, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-88747-245-0 , p. 9 ff .
- Sándor Lénárd : At the end of Via Condotti. Roman stories . From the Hungarian. transferred and provided with a biographical note by Ernő Zeltner . With an afterward by György Dalos . - German First edition - Munich: dtv, 2017. ISBN 978-3-423-28112-6 . (The Café Greco as a meeting place for exiles and refugees shortly before and during the Second World War.)
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Grande Amore , accessed December 2, 2016
Coordinates: 41 ° 54 ′ 20.2 " N , 12 ° 28 ′ 53.7" E