William Diebold
"The Uses of Classicism"
Humanities 110--October 29, 1999
 

Monuments

Aegina, Temple of Aphaia

Temple constructed c. 490 B.C.
West pediment sculptures carved c. 490 B.C. (now Munich, Glyptothek)
East pediment sculptures carved c. 480 B.C. (now Munich, Glyptothek)
Pedimental sculptures restored 1816-1818 A.D. by Bertel Thorwaldsen
Thorwaldsen restorations removed 1962-75

Valhalla (near Regensburg), Leo von Klenze, 1830-42

Munich, Königsplatz

Glyptothek (north side), Leo von Klenze, 1816-30
Propyläen (west side), Leo von Klenze, 1854-62
Führerbau (Führer's Building; east side), Paul L. Troost, 1933-37
Verwaltungsbau der NSDAP (Administration Building of the Nazi Party; east side), Paul L. Troost, 1933-37
Ehrentempel (Temple of Honor; east side), Paul L. Troost, 1933-35 (dynamited, 1947)

Terms and Persons

pediment
Ludwig I of Bavaria (1786-1868)
Bertel Thorwaldsen (1770-1844)
Gesamtkunstwerk (German: "total work of art")
Glyptothek (Gr: "container of sculpture")
Leo von Klenze (1784-1864)
Leon Krier

Chronology (all dates A.D. unless otherwise noted)

c. 490 B.C. West pediment of Temple of Aphaia, Aegina
c. 480 B.C. East pediment of Temple of Aphaia, Aegina
[antiquity?] Pedimental sculptures dislodged from Temple of Aphaia, Aegina
1811 Aegina pediments excavated
1813 Aegina pediments sold to Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria
1816-18 Aegina pediments restored by Thorwaldsen
1825 Crown Prince Ludwig becomes King Ludwig I of Bavaria
1830 Aegina pediments put on display in Munich Glyptothek
1833 Ludwig's son becomes King Otto I of Greece
1862 Abdication of Otto I as King of Greece
1923 Failed Nazi putsch in Munich; 16 Nazis killed
1933 Nazi seizure of power
1962-75 Thorwaldsen restorations of Aegina pediments removed
 

Further Reading

Diebold, William J. "The Politics of Derestoration: The Aegina Pediments and the German Confrontation with the Past." Art Journal 54 (1995), 60-66.