Johann Friedrich Dryander

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Johann Friedrich Dryander: Portrait of Dominique Joseph Garat, oil on canvas, Saarbrücken 1794, ( Musée de la Révolution française ).

Johann Friedrich Dryander (born April 23, 1756 in St. Johann , now Saarbrücken , † March 12, 1812 there ) was a German painter.

Life

Dryander was born in 1756 as the son of the trimmings maker Johann Georg Dryander and his wife Catharina Margaretha. From 1772 to 1774 Dryander, like Johann Heinrich Schmidt of the same age, was an apprentice to the court painter Johann Jakob Samhammer . In 1774 he moved to Darmstadt with his teacher . From 1778 Dryander was a traveling painter at various courts in southern Hesse before he became court painter at the court of the Prince of Nassau-Saarbrücken in Saarbrücken in 1788 . As a court painter, Dryander was primarily a portrait painter of the better society at court and, in addition to Prince Ludwig and his family, also painted the upper middle class of the city. In 1789 he married the 24-year-old Catharina Elisabetha Zix. The marriage resulted in two daughters and a son.

When the princes of Nassau-Saarbrücken had to flee into exile as a result of the French Revolution in 1793 , Dryander mainly portrayed French officers. In 1795 he came to Metz and contracted typhus there . In 1798 and 1799 he lived in Frankfurt am Main before he settled again in Saarbrücken.

His works are now in the Musée historique Lorrain in Nancy , the Musée des Beaux-arts in Rouen , the Saarland Museum in Saarbrücken and the Musée de la Révolution française in Vizille Castle .

literature

  • Karl Lohmeyer : Johann Friedrich Dryander: 1756-1812; a forgotten southwest German painter . 1928
  • Karl Lohmeyer: Johann Friedrich Dryander, the painter chronicler of the bourgeois Saarbrücken around 1800 . In: Saarheimatbilder 6, 1930
  • Roland Augustin, Stefan Heinlein, Sibylle Nöth, Eva Wolf, Ralph Melcher: Johann Friedrich Dryander. An artist between the royal court and the bourgeoisie . Saarland Cultural Heritage Foundation, Saarbrücken, 2006, ISBN 978-3932036217

Web links

Commons : Johann Friedrich Dryander  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Johann Friedrich Dryander ( memento from October 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) in the Saarland biographies
personal data
SURNAME Dryander, Johann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Johann (Saar) , now Saarbrücken
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1812
Place of death St. Johann (Saar) , now Saarbrücken