Andreas Dirks

Andreas Dirks (born June 16, 1865 in Tinnum on Sylt ; † June 24, 1922 in Düsseldorf ) was a German landscape and marine painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Fishing port

Fishing boats off Sylt

Munkmarschen harbor view on Sylt , 1922

Dirks was born as the eldest son of Paul Andreas Dirks (1835-1914) and Anna Louise Auguste Schaper (1840-1911). He had five younger siblings, two brothers and three sisters. His artistic training began with a visit to the Hamburg trade school . In 1885/1886 he studied with Eugen Dücker at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . From 1887 to 1893 he attended the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar , where he studied with Leopold von Kalckreuth and Theodor Hagen . In 1889 he worked with college friends in Gothmund . In 1895 he settled in Düsseldorf. There he belonged to the artists' association Malkasten . Alexander Essfeld was a private student of Dirks . In 1916 Dirk became a professor. Every year he used to visit his home on Sylt, where he had a studio . He also made extensive trips to the United States . Dirks received several awards, in 1900 a small gold medal at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition , in 1907 a large gold medal in Vienna.

Work (selection)

Initially preferring earthy tones for his pictures, he switched to a more colorful representation by 1900.

Fishing port
Boats on the quay
West coast landscape
Fishing boats off Sylt
Munkmarschen harbor view on Sylt , 1922

Exhibitions (selection)

New acquisitions and pictures from the Sölring Foriining collection , with Albert Aereboe , Otto Eglau , Carl Christian Feddersen , CP Hansen , Richard Kaiser, Hugo Kätze , Franz Korwan , Ingo Kühl , Walther Kunau, Dieter Röttger , Siegward Sprotte , Helene Varges , Magnus Weidemann u. a., Sylter Heimatmuseum, Keitum / Sylt 2003.

literature

Dirks, Andreas . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 9 : Delaulne-Dubois . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1913, p. 327 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer : Andreas Dirks . In: Artist Island Sylt. Boyens, Heide 2005, ISBN 3-8042-1171-2 , pp. 102-105

Web links

Commons : Andreas Dirks - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Heiko Jäckstein: Gothmund artists' colony, research - sources

Individual evidence

↑ Prof. Andreas Dirks , data sheet of the Sylt family database , accessed on the online-ofb.de portal on June 22, 2015

^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 147

↑ Heiko Jäckstein: Artists' Colony Gothmund, Research - Sources

↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on June 22, 2015

^ Wilhelm Schäfer : Two Düsseldorf painters (Andreas Dirks and Wilhelm Schreuer) . In: Die Rheinlande , Heft 3, 1900, pp. 16–26 ( digitized version )

personal data
SURNAME	Dirks, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German landscape and marine painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH	June 16, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tinnum on Sylt
DATE OF DEATH	June 24, 1922
Place of death	Dusseldorf

[1] Prof. Andreas Dirks , data sheet of the Sylt family database , accessed on the online-ofb.de portal on June 22, 2015

[2] Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 147

[3] Heiko Jäckstein: Artists' Colony Gothmund, Research - Sources

[4] Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on June 22, 2015

[5] Wilhelm Schäfer : Two Düsseldorf painters (Andreas Dirks and Wilhelm Schreuer) . In: Die Rheinlande , Heft 3, 1900, pp. 16–26 ( digitized version )