DOI Artikel:
Zieliński, Jan: Józef Kremer w Trieście
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.23902#0210
194 Jan Zieliński
sromu tych, co mogąc dokonać zacnych i uczciwych spraw, wolą, jakby bez-
rozumne istoty, zejść ze świata milczkiem i przepaść w nicestwie - bez za-
sług i śladu!" (s. 231).
Z właściwą sobie skromnością Kremer przemilcza własną osobę. Czy-
telnicy Podróży do Włoch znający życiorys i dorobek ich autora wiedzą
wszakże, że krakowski historyk sztuki godnie spłacił dług, zaciągnięty
w młodości u Winckelmanna. Reportaż z Triestu jawi się w takiej perspekty-
wie jako wyraz wdzięczności i hołdu.
JÓZEF KREMER IN TRIESTE
The article is devoted to an analysis of the Trieste chapter of Józef Kremer's
Podróż do Włoch [Journey to Italy] (vol. 1, Vilnius 1859), a combination of travel and
historical writing. The description of arrival in Trieste is grotesąue in character. The
suburbs seem to Kremer merely a poor imitation of the nearby Venice. The purpose of
Kremer's journey to Trieste is to see the place where Johann Joachim Winckelmann
spent the last days of his life and where he was murdered in 1768. In his youth, Kremer
had read Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums and was deeply affected by the book,
which influenced the choice of his later career. Kremer's account of the life of the
German art historian is at times almost hagiographic. The last days of Winckelmann's
life are described in the present tense, in the form of a dramatic documentary which
resembles the narrative of a novel.
Kremer based his account on the work of Domenico Rossetti, entitled // Sepolcro
di Winckelmann in Trieste (Venezia 1823). He also made references to an essay by
J.W. Goethe from the volume Winckelmann und sein Jahrhundert (1805) and to the
book by Stanisław Kostka Potocki O sztuce u dawnych czyli Winkelman polski (Warszawa
1815). It is likely that Kremer also used the article by Willibald Alexis, Winckelmann s
Ermordung. 1768 ("Der neue Pitaval" 12, 1847), as an additional source of informa-
tion.
Apart from the place where Winckelmann was murdered, Kremer visited also his
grave, which was built, thanks to the efforts of Rossetti, in 1827 (the cenotaph was
designed by the Italian sculptor Antonio Bosa). Kremer left a poetic, romantic descrip-
tion of the tomb.
Rossetti's book tells us that several decades before Kremer's journey, a scholar
with Polish connections, Abraham Jakob Penzel (1749-1819), undertook the task of
writing a biography of Winckelmann, which he never finished.
sromu tych, co mogąc dokonać zacnych i uczciwych spraw, wolą, jakby bez-
rozumne istoty, zejść ze świata milczkiem i przepaść w nicestwie - bez za-
sług i śladu!" (s. 231).
Z właściwą sobie skromnością Kremer przemilcza własną osobę. Czy-
telnicy Podróży do Włoch znający życiorys i dorobek ich autora wiedzą
wszakże, że krakowski historyk sztuki godnie spłacił dług, zaciągnięty
w młodości u Winckelmanna. Reportaż z Triestu jawi się w takiej perspekty-
wie jako wyraz wdzięczności i hołdu.
JÓZEF KREMER IN TRIESTE
The article is devoted to an analysis of the Trieste chapter of Józef Kremer's
Podróż do Włoch [Journey to Italy] (vol. 1, Vilnius 1859), a combination of travel and
historical writing. The description of arrival in Trieste is grotesąue in character. The
suburbs seem to Kremer merely a poor imitation of the nearby Venice. The purpose of
Kremer's journey to Trieste is to see the place where Johann Joachim Winckelmann
spent the last days of his life and where he was murdered in 1768. In his youth, Kremer
had read Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums and was deeply affected by the book,
which influenced the choice of his later career. Kremer's account of the life of the
German art historian is at times almost hagiographic. The last days of Winckelmann's
life are described in the present tense, in the form of a dramatic documentary which
resembles the narrative of a novel.
Kremer based his account on the work of Domenico Rossetti, entitled // Sepolcro
di Winckelmann in Trieste (Venezia 1823). He also made references to an essay by
J.W. Goethe from the volume Winckelmann und sein Jahrhundert (1805) and to the
book by Stanisław Kostka Potocki O sztuce u dawnych czyli Winkelman polski (Warszawa
1815). It is likely that Kremer also used the article by Willibald Alexis, Winckelmann s
Ermordung. 1768 ("Der neue Pitaval" 12, 1847), as an additional source of informa-
tion.
Apart from the place where Winckelmann was murdered, Kremer visited also his
grave, which was built, thanks to the efforts of Rossetti, in 1827 (the cenotaph was
designed by the Italian sculptor Antonio Bosa). Kremer left a poetic, romantic descrip-
tion of the tomb.
Rossetti's book tells us that several decades before Kremer's journey, a scholar
with Polish connections, Abraham Jakob Penzel (1749-1819), undertook the task of
writing a biography of Winckelmann, which he never finished.