2017 AD., Germany, Federal Republic, 300th anniversary birth of Johann Joachim Winckelmann commemorative, Stuttgart mint, 20 Euro.

Germany, Federal Republic, 300th anniversary birth of Johann Joachim Winckelmann commemorative, engraver: Andre Witting, Stuttgart mint, 2017 AD.,
20 Euro (ø 32,5 mm / 18,00 g), 0.925 silver, 18,00 g theor. mint weight, mintage 930.000 , axes medal alignment ↑↑, plain, incuse lettered edge,
Obv.: BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND / 2017 - SILBER 925 / 20 EURO / F , issuer, date, mint mark, silver content and value around German coat of arms (eagle), 12 stars flanking in a half circle below.
Rev.: 300. GEBURTSTAG JOHANN JOACHIM WINCKELMANN / 1717-1768 / {AW} , his head facing left. His dates and engraver´s monogram below.
Edge: plain with incuse inscription “EDLE EINFALT UND STILLE GRÖSSE • " (translated: "elegant simplemindedness and silent greatness").
Ref. ? .

Year / Mint Mark / Mintage
2017 / F / 800.000
2017 / F / 130.000 (proof)

Johann Joachim Winckelmann (9 December 1717 – 8 June 1768) was a German art historian and archaeologist. He was a pioneering Hellenist who first articulated the difference between Greek, Greco-Roman and Roman art. "The prophet and founding hero of modern archaeology", Winckelmann was one of the founders of scientific archaeology and first applied the categories of style on a large, systematic basis to the history of art. Many consider him the father of the discipline of art history. His would be the decisive influence on the rise of the neoclassical movement during the late 18th century. His writings influenced not only a new science of archaeology and art history but Western painting, sculpture, literature and even philosophy. Winckelmann's History of Ancient Art (1764) was one of the first books written in German to become a classic of European literature. He was one of the first to separate Greek Art into to periods, and time classifications. His subsequent influence on Lessing, Herder, Goethe, Hölderlin, Heine, Nietzsche, George, and Spengler has been provocatively called "the Tyranny of Greece over Germany." Today, Humboldt University of Berlin's Winckelmann Institute is dedicated to the study of classical archaeology.

More on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Joachim_Winckelmann