Sascha Kansteiner

Sascha Kansteiner (born November 19, 1967 ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Sascha Kansteiner graduated from high school in Steglitz in Berlin in 1985 and began studying classical archeology, ancient history and Greek studies at the Free University of Berlin in the 1986 summer semester . There he obtained his master's degree in 1992 and became Heracles' work in 1997 . The representations in the large-scale sculpture of antiquity doctorate . From February 1997 to September 2003, on behalf of the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature , he edited the edition and archaeological commentary on Johann Joachim Winckelmann's records on the antiquities in the Roman villas and palazzi. This activity was interrupted from October 1997 to September 1998 by the travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute . From 2004 to 2010 he was a research assistant and coordinator in the DFG project Der Neue Overbeck , a five-volume, almost 4000-page compilation of ancient written sources on the visual arts of the Greeks. He edited more than 600 artist biographies himself. From 2011 to 2016 he was a member of the Collaborative Research Center 644 “Transformation of Antiquity” of the German Research Foundation at the Humboldt University in Berlin . Since 2019 he has been a research assistant responsible for the antiquities at the sculpture collection of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden .

Fonts

• with Max Kunze and Moritz Kiderlen: Alexander the Great: King of the World. A newly discovered bronze statue. Catalog for the special exhibition of the Winckelmann Society with the Winckelmann Museum Stendal from July 15, 2000 to September 3, 2000. Stendal 2000, ISBN 3-910060-34-X .
• with Eva Hofstetter-Dolega and Max Kunze: Livia. Wife of the Roman emperor Augustus. An unknown portrait from San Francisco. Special exhibition, Winckelmann-Gesellschaft Stendal, Winckelmann-Museum, September 26th to December 10th 2001, Antikensammlung, Kunsthalle zu Kiel January to March 2002. Winckelmann-Gesellschaft, Stendal 2001.
• Johann Joachim Winckelmann. Writings and bequests. Volume 5: Ville e Palazzi di Roma. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2002, ISBN 3-8053-2975-X .
• with Bernard Andreae and Max Kunze: Sea God and Sea Horse. A newly discovered masterpiece of Greek bronze art from Jerusalem. Winckelmann-Museum / Winckelmann-Gesellschaft, Stendal 2002, ISBN 3-910060-48-X .
• Johann Joachim Winckelmann and the Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz (= catalogs and publications of the Dessau-Wörlitz Cultural Foundation. Volume 22). Kulturstiftung Dessau-Wörlitz / Winckelmann-Gesellschaft, Dessau / Stendal 2003, ISBN 3-86107-027-8 .
• Editor: Text and Sculpture. Famous sculptors and bronze founders of antiquity in words and pictures. Exhibition in the cast collection of antique plastic Berlin. De Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019610-8 .
• with Ingo Pfeifer: The Pantheon in the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich and Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-422-02071-9 .
• Editor: Supplementary Processes. Transformation of ancient sculpture through restoration (= Transformations of Antiquity. Volume 26). De Gruyter, Berlin and Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-033182-0 (plastic), ISBN 978-3-11-033186-8 (print and e-book).
• Editor with Klaus Hallof , Lauri Lehmann, Bernd Seidensticker and Klaus Stemmer : Der Neue Overbeck. The ancient written sources on the fine arts of the Greeks. 5 volumes. De Gruyter, Berlin and Boston 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-018233-0 ( review by Matthias Haake at Sehepunkte ).
• Editor: Pseudo-Antique Sculpture. Case studies on ancient sculptures and their imitations (= Transformations of Antiquity. Volume 45). De Gruyter, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-047452-7 .
• Pseudo-antique sculpture II. Classicist statues from ancient and post-ancient times (= Transformations of Antiquity. Volume 47). De Gruyter, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-051797-2 .

Web links

• CV , HU Berlin
• Publications at academia.edu