Jakob Linckh

Jacob Linckh (* 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 farmer Cannstatt. He should be a businessman, but was attracted to art and devoted himself to landscape painting.

Linckh traveled to Italy and joined in Rome a group of architects and archaeologists to Charles Robert Cockerell, John Foster (1787-1846), Carl Haller von Haller Stone, Otto Magnus von Stackelberg, Peter Oluf Brøndsted and George Christian Gropius. They founded the association " Xeneion ", which had the objective of carrying out excavations in Greece and the European findings after shipping and auction "lovers " offer to purchase. The Group undertook in 1810 their first expedition to Greece to - perform at several places Greek excavations - in different combinations. The trip to Greece began in July 1810 in Naples and was long and adventurous, in September of the same year, the group arrived in Piraeus.

In the spring of 1811 Linckh was involved in the expedition to the Temple of Aphaia on the island of Aegina; the group discovered in the recording of the plan under the rubble of the pediment figures of the temple and put them free. Much of this pediment figures, known in archeology as " Aeginetans ", was sold in 1812 to the Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig for 7000 florins (from the Ottoman government, an export permit has been acquired) and is since 1830 in the Munich Glyptothek.

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

1812 were part of the Apollo temple uncovered during Bassae in Arcadia. The discovered by the expedition and exposed relief frieze of the cella inner wall, the only surviving from the ancient Greek cella interior frieze is located since 1814 in the British Museum in London. It shows the Amazons and Kentaurenschlacht.

Linckh also led to Ithaca by excavations. In 1813, he traveled to Constantinople with Gropius Opel. In 1814 Cockerell and Linckh undertook a recent archeological expedition with the architect Thomas Allason ( 1790-1852 ), the archaeologist John Spencer Stanhope ( 1787-1873 ) and James Tupper Perchard. About Marathon, Tanagra, Aulis and Chalcis, the group came to Eretria, where Linckh took up a plan of the ancient theater.

Linckh who participated in the sale of antiquities, and thus 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 died. He was buried at the cemetery gate in Cannstatt.