Dietrich Monten
Dietrich Heinrich Maria Monten (born September 18, 1799 in Düsseldorf , † December 13, 1843 in Munich ) was a German history , battle and genre painter, as well as etcher and lithographer .
life and work
Monten grew up in Düsseldorf, where he was friends with Heinrich Heine in his youth . From 1821 he studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Peter Cornelius . A little later he switched to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he was a student of Peter von Hess .
Monten is known for his versatility, both in technique and subject . In Pappenheim Castle, for example, he made grisaille with scenes from the life of Gottfried Heinrich zu Pappenheim and three frescoes in the Hofgarten arcades in Munich ( storming a Turk's hill , the battle of Arcis , Maximilian I gave his people the constitutional charter ). Oil paintings by Dietrich Montens can be found in the Neue Pinakothek , the Bavarian Army Museum , the Germanic National Museum and the Army History Museum in Vienna .
Works (excerpt)
- The battle at the Traun Bridge near Ebelsberg on May 5, 1809 , 1825, oil on canvas, approx. 32 × 40 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna
literature
- Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present. Leipzig 1931, volume 25, p. 88.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Christian Liedtke : Heinrich Heine in a portrait. How the artists of his time saw him . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2006, p. 89
- ↑ Hans Vollmer (Ed.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present. Leipzig 1931, volume 25, p. 88.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Monten, Dietrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Monten, Dietrich Heinrich Maria (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German military painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 18, 1799 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 13, 1843 |
| Place of death | Munich |