Albert Christoph Dies

Landscape with the Education of Jupiter , 1783

Leopoldinentempel with pond , 1807. The temple is in the park of Esterházy Palace in Eisenstadt .

Albert Christoph Dies (born February 11, 1755 in Hanover , † December 29, 1822 in Vienna ) was a German painter , etcher and biographer.

life and work

This was born in Hanover in 1755. He received no artistic training in the classical sense, but appropriated his creative way autodidactic to. In 1775 he moved to Rome . He belonged to the German circle of artists around Jakob Philipp Hackert , Johann Christian Reinhart and Joseph Anton Koch also belonged to this group. This refined his knowledge through copies of paintings, also by Hackert, and also by Claude Lorrain . This made commissioned work, mostly coloring of engravings, also by Giovanni Battista Piranesi , in order to finance the stay. In the years 1792 to 1796 he created together with Reinhart andJacob Wilhelm Mechau a series of prospectuses etched by Mahlerisch . This consists of 72 individual etchings and was published in Nuremberg . Johann Wolfgang von Goethe mentions this as "skillful" in his Italian trip . In 1797 he moved again, this time to Vienna. There he was appointed gallery director by Prince Esterházy . In 1810 one of the first biographies on Joseph Haydn appeared in the Camesinaische Buchhandlung in Vienna, written by Dies, under the title Biographische Nachrichten von Joseph Haydn . His health deteriorated sharply towards the end of his life and he died in Vienna in 1822.

A watercolor from 1777 - a path near Tivoli with a landscape on the reverse is shown - is in the Staatliche Museen Kassel . It has the format 30 × 48.6 cm and is signed by him with "AC Dies a Tivoli 1777". The picture is listed under the inventory number AZ 2053, serial no. No. 5296.

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : This, Albert Christoph . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 3rd part. Typogr.-literar.-artist publishing house. Establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1858, pp. 286–288 ( digitized version ).
Staatliche Museen Kassel, Christiane Lukatis, Hans Ottomeyer: With brush, pen and pen - master drawings of the graphic collection , exhibition catalog, Edition Minerva, Kassel 2000 ISBN 3-931787-12-5

Web links

Commons : Albert Christoph Dies - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Staatliche Museen Kassel, Christiane Lukatis, Hans Ottomeyer: With brush, pen and pen - master drawings of the graphic collection , p. 229.
^ Staatliche Museen Kassel, Christiane Lukatis, Hans Ottomeyer: With brush, pen and pen - master drawings of the graphic collection , p. 122 with reference to the Italian journey, 1992 edition, p. 451.
↑ Biographische Nachrichten von Joseph Haydn ( Memento from August 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), donjuanarchiv.at, accessed on May 14, 2012
^ Digitized version of the Bavarian State Library in Munich
↑ Staatliche Museen Kassel, Christiane Lukatis, Hans Ottomeyer: With brush, pen and pen - master drawings of the graphic collection , p. 122.

personal data
SURNAME	This, Albert Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter, etcher and biographer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 11, 1755
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover
DATE OF DEATH	December 29, 1822
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Staatliche Museen Kassel, Christiane Lukatis, Hans Ottomeyer: With brush, pen and pen - master drawings of the graphic collection , p. 229.

[2] Staatliche Museen Kassel, Christiane Lukatis, Hans Ottomeyer: With brush, pen and pen - master drawings of the graphic collection , p. 122 with reference to the Italian journey, 1992 edition, p. 451.

[3] Biographische Nachrichten von Joseph Haydn ( Memento from August 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), donjuanarchiv.at, accessed on May 14, 2012

[4] Digitized version of the Bavarian State Library in Munich

[5] Staatliche Museen Kassel, Christiane Lukatis, Hans Ottomeyer: With brush, pen and pen - master drawings of the graphic collection , p. 122.