Jakob Linckh

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Jakob Linckh (left) and Otto Magnus von Stackelberg, double portrait by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres , 1817

Jakob Linckh (born November 14, 1787 in Cannstatt , † April 4, 1841 in Stuttgart ) was a German painter, archaeologist and philhellene .

Life

Linckh was the son of a wealthy host in Cannstatt. He was supposed to become a businessman, but felt drawn to art and devoted himself to landscape painting .

Linckh traveled to Italy and joined a group of architects and archaeologists in Rome around Charles Robert Cockerell , John Foster (1787–1846), Carl Haller von Hallerstein , Otto Magnus von Stackelberg , Peter Oluf Brøndsted and Georg Christian Gropius . They founded the Xeneion association, which had the aim of carrying out excavations in Greece and offering the finds to European “lovers” for sale after shipping and auctioning. The group undertook their first expedition to Greece in 1810 in order to carry out excavations at several Greek locations - in different compositions. The journey to Greece began in Naples in July 1810 and was long and adventurous, in September of the same year the group arrived in Piraeus .

Gable figures from the Aphaia temple in the Munich Glyptothek

In the spring of 1811 Linckh was involved in the expedition to the Temple of Aphaia on the island of Aegina ; While taking the floor plan, the group discovered the gable figures of the temple under the rubble and uncovered them. A large number of these gable figures, known in archeology as "Aigineten", were sold to the Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig for 7,000 guilders in 1812 (an export permit was obtained from the Ottoman government) and has been in the Munich Glyptothek since 1830 .

Together with Brøndsted, Linckh undertook excavations at the Athena temple of ancient Karthaia on the island of Kea .

Frieze of the Temple of Apollo in Bassae, Battle of the Centaurs

In 1812, parts of the Temple of Apollo near Bassae in Arcadia were exposed. The relief frieze of the cella inner wall discovered and uncovered by the expedition , the only cella inner frieze to survive from Greek antiquity, has been in the British Museum in London since 1814 . It shows the battle of the Amazons and Centaurs .

Linckh also carried out excavations on Ithaca . In 1813 he traveled to Constantinople with Gropius . In 1814 Cockerell and Linckh undertook a new archaeological expedition with the architect Thomas Allason (1790-1852), the archaeologist John Spencer Stanhope ( 1787-1883 ) and James Tupper Perchard . Via Marathon , Tanagra , Aulis and Chalkis , the group came to Eretria , where Linckh recorded a plan of the ancient theater.

Linckh, who participated in the sale of the antiquities and thereby became wealthy, settled in Rome, where he was close to the circle of the Roman Hyperboreans . In 1832 he finally moved to Stuttgart, where he also died. He was buried in the Steigfriedhof in Cannstatt.

literature

  • Peter Goessler : Jakob Linckh. An Italian driver from Württemberg, Philhellene, art collector and painter (= special supplement to the State Gazette for Württemberg 1930, 3/4). Stuttgart 1930.
  • Peter Goessler: Jacob Linckh, a Philhellene. In: Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst NF 12, 1937/38, pp. 137–148.

Individual evidence

  1. Politismos: The Odyssey of the Gable Figures of the Aeginetes ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.griechische-kultur.eu
  2. ^ Raimund Wünsche : The Glyptothek in Munich - Temple of Fame of Antiquity , In: The Greek World. Places of remembrance from antiquity. , Elke Stein-Hölkeskamp , Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp (eds.), Munich 2010, p. 569.
  3. Nuremberg papers. Literary magazine from and for southern Germany . Nuremberg 1831, p. 368 .
  4. ^ Eduard Gerhardt: Archaeological Legacy from Rome. .
  5. Swiss School of Archeology in Greece: Cockerell and the "Grand Tour" ( Memento of the original dated August 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.unil.ch