Johannes Wiedewelt

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Johannes Wiedewelt

Johannes Wiedewelt (born July 1, 1731 in Copenhagen , † December 17, 1802 by suicide there ) was a Danish sculptor of classicism.

Life

Wiedewelt was a son of the sculptor Just Wiedewelt and initially a student of his father. He received lessons from the Italian history painter Hieronimo Miani until 1745 . In 1750 Joachim Wasserschlebe , at that time legation secretary at the Danish legation in Paris , enabled him to study in Paris and study with Guillaume Coustou the Younger . In 1754 he received a royal scholarship to study in Rome . He stayed here until 1758 and made friends with Johann Joachim Winckelmann , who took him in and whose classicist views he adopted.

He returned to Copenhagen in 1758 and was appointed court sculptor in 1759. In 1761 he was appointed professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts , where he worked until his death and which he was director from 1772 to 1777, from 1780 to 1789 and from 1792 to 1795.

Wiedewelt is considered the most important Danish sculptor before Bertel Thorvaldsen , whose first teacher he was. Even Caspar David Friedrich and Alexander Trippel were among his students.

He was buried in the assistance cemetery, for which he had created many tombs.

Works

Tomb of Frederick V, copper engraving by Johann Friderich Clemens 1783; Johannes Wiedewelt and the architect Caspar Frederik Harsdorff are shown on the left

Fonts

  • Thoughts about the taste. 1762, (Danish).
  • Samling from Aegyptiske and Romerske Oldsager. ( Collection of Egyptian and Roman antiquities. ) Volume 1, 1786 ( mdz-nbn-resolving.de ).

literature

Web links

Commons : Johannes Wiedewelt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stefan Dürre: Seemanns Lexikon der Skulptur . EA Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-86502-101-4 , pp. 448 f .