Anton Dieffenbach

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Self-Portrait , 1904

Anton Dieffenbach (born February 4, 1831 in Wiesbaden , † November 29, 1914 in Hohwald , Vosges ) was a German landscape painter .

Life

Born in Wiesbaden, Dieffenbach came to Strasbourg with his parents in 1840 and became a pupil of the painter Charles Duhamel . With his recommendation he later went to Paris and became a student of the sculptor James Pradier . After his death on June 4, 1852, Dieffenbach returned to Germany and settled in his hometown Wiesbaden. He decided to devote himself only to painting , and in 1853 he went to Düsseldorf , where he studied intermittently, for example in 1856/57 at the art academy in Christian Köhler's painting class and privately with Karl Ferdinand Sohn and Rudolf Jordan . 1856-1859 Dieffenbach was a member of the artists' association Malkasten . Dieffenbach preferred to find his subjects in depictions of family scenes, especially those with children. The painting of Ludwig Knaus had a great influence on Dieffenbach's choice of subjects , without his being his pupil. As a kind of homage, Dieffenbach created the painting A Day Before the Wedding in Paris , which was seen as a counterpart to Knaus' painting The Golden Wedding , but which thematized the preparations for the wedding of young people. The picture was exhibited in Stuttgart and purchased for the King of Württemberg; a replica from 1868 was sold to the USA.

Dieffenbach left Düsseldorf because he was called up for military service; In 1858 he returned to his hometown. In 1863 he settled in Paris and stayed there until the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War drove him out. He went to Switzerland in 1871 , to Berlin in 1872 and finally settled in Strasbourg in 1897. Here he was made an honorary member of the Strasbourg Artists Association. Since 1880 he spent the summer months in Hohwald in the Vosges . In this wooded area he found enough material for studies from nature, some of which he later translated into oil paintings in his studio . Dieffenbach's late work consists almost exclusively of landscapes, with the "forest images" from the Vosges predominating. His pictures are characterized by a successful composition in the picture structure as well as a strong color scheme and play with the moods in the change of the seasons and times of day.

Anton Dieffenbach died on November 29, 1914 at the age of 83 in Hohwald.

Participation in exhibitions

  • Düsseldorf, Kunstverein 1856 ( The Children and the Gypsy )
  • Paris, Paris Salon 1865 ( Christmas party )
  • Berlin, academic art exhibition 1876 ( Just Courage!, 1864)
  • Kassel, exhibition of the Association for Fine Arts, February 1865 ( The missed fox )
  • Vienna, Austrian Art Association, November 1865 ( Hunter's Latin )
  • Stuttgart, permanent art exhibition Herdtle & Peters, February 1865 ( the day before the wedding , 1st version); Reproduction: An evening before the wedding , copper engraving by Achille and Eugénie Varin after A. Dieffenbach. Goupil & Cie., Paris 1865
  • Stuttgart, Permanent Art Exhibition Herdtle & Peters, November 1866 ( The Little Reader )
  • Berlin, Sachse's permanent painting exhibition, October 1866 ( Das Kindersüppchen )
  • Stuttgart, permanent art exhibition Herdtle & Peters, November 1867 ( The Christmas tree , Paris 1867); Reproduction: Engraving by Achille Varin
  • Munich, annual exhibition in the Glaspalast 1869 ( The Kittens )
  • Berlin, Art Salon Sachse, February 1873 ( The engagement ); Reproduction: Engraving by Léopold Massard, Paul Girardet and Achille Varin
  • Berlin, academic art exhibition 1876 ( delicacies )
  • Berlin, academic art exhibition 1877 ( leave your brother here! )
  • Berlin, academic art exhibition 1881 ( shooting lessons )
  • Berlin, academic art exhibition 1887 ( diligence and avarice , counterparts); Reproduction as a wood engraving, in: Daheim . Volume 27a, October 1890/91
  • Vienna, anniversary art exhibition 1888 ( The Spurned Kiss )
  • Berlin, academic art exhibition 1890 ( In the Vosges Forest )
  • Société des Amis des Arts, Strasbourg 1891, 1895, 1904, 1909
  • Société des Arts de Mulhouse 1893–1904
  • 2nd Salon des Artistes strasbourgeois, Château des Rohan, Strasbourg 1903
  • Art Moderne , Château des Rohan, Strasbourg 1912
  • Exposition rétrospective, Maison d'Arts alsaciens de Strasbourg 1917

Works (selection)

  • Tit-Bit (delicacies) , dough-kneading farmer's wife , formerly Berlin, National Gallery
  • The Two Savoyards , New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Playing Children (1856)
  • The orphan ; Illustration as a wood engraving in: Düsseldorfer Jugendalbum 4, 1859
  • Hungarian mouse drop dealer (Paris 1865)
  • Dreaming (1865), Hartford / Conn., USA, Wadsworth Atheneum. Bequest of Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt
  • Jägerlatein (Paris 1866), formerly in the Alexander White collection, Chicago, USA; Reproduction: Engraving by A. Fleischmann
  • The white goat ( Le checreau blanc ), edge of the forest in the Vosges ( Lisière de forêt dans les Vosges , 1891), Strasbourg, Musée d'Art Moderne
  • The missed fox
  • A sleigh ride
  • The girl whitening the canvas
  • The visit to the nurse
  • The first exit

literature

  • Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history I-1. Dresden 1891.
  • Friedrich Jansa (Hrsg.): German visual artists in words and pictures. Leipzig 1912.
  • Theodor Knorr: Dieffenbach, Anton Heinrich . 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. 228-229 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
  • Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General artist lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists , prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller. Literary Institute Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt / Main 1921, Volume 1, Volume 5 (supplements).
  • German Biographical Yearbook. Published by the Association of German Academies. Volume I. Berlin / Leipzig 1925, p. 279.
  • Dieffenbach, Anton Heinrich. In: Hans Vollmer: General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. Volume 5 (Supplements). EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961.
  • Emanuel Bénézit (Ed.): Dictionnaire Critique et Documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. Volume III, 1976.
  • Encyclopédie d'Alsace. Volume IV, 1983.
  • René Metz: Les peintres alsaciens de 1870 à 1914. Diss. Univ. Strasbourg 1971.
  • Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 1: Abbema – Gurlitt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-3009-9 , pp. 283-285 (fig.).

Web links

Commons : Anton Dieffenbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wadsworth Atheneum Paintings. Catalog I, Hartford 1978, p. 130; Fig. 167, no.36.

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personal data
SURNAME Dieffenbach, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1914
Place of death Hohwald , Vosges