son of sculptor
with father, Just Wiedewelt; with Guillaume Coustou (1750-58, Paris)
1753 – wins silver medal from Académie Royale
1758 – becomes Royal Danish Art Academy (Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi) member
1761 – becomes Danish Academy professor (serves as director 8 times)
1802 – death (probably suicide by drowning)
Paris (1750-54), Rome (1754-58), England and France (1768-69)
Frederik V (King of Denmark)
Memorial Grove sculptures, 1779-89 (Jaegerspris Park, Denmark)
Bukdahl, Else Marie. The Roots of Neoclassicism: Wiedewelt,Thorvaldsen and Danish Sculpture of Our Time. Copenhagen: Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, 2004
Nielsen, Marjatta and Annette Rathje. Johannes Wiedewelt: A Danish Artist in Search of the Past, Shaping the Future. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2010