Dietrich Wilhelm Lindau

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Dietrich Wilhelm Lindau (born June 19, 1799 in Dresden , † September 24, 1862 in Rome ) was a German genre and landscape painter and draftsman.

Life

He first studied at the Dresden Art Academy with Ferdinand Hartmann and was supported by him.

In 1821 he went to Rome as a Saxon scholarship holder with other German painters (including Carl Götzloff , Carl Georg Schumacher and Anton Josef Dräger ), where he died at the age of 63. He is buried near the Cestius pyramid . He was a co-founder of the Ponte Molle Society in Rome, the forerunner of the German Artists' Association in 1845. He never returned to his homeland, although he had been offered a teaching position at the Dresden Academy.

Works (selection)

Lindau is known for its scenes from Italian folk life such as u. a.

  • 1825: Artist in an osteria, watching the saltarello
  • around 1826: Italian village street
  • 1827: Thorvaldsen in a Roman osteria near Saltarello
  • 1832: Oktoberfest in a Vigna near Rome
  • 1833: Peasants in the vicinity of Rome after the grape harvest ( illustration )
  • 1854: Roman hunters carousing in front of a Campagna inn
  • German artist festival at the Cervara grottoes near Rome
  • Henry and Rebecca gallop past the Temple of Vesta

literature

  • Johannes Andreas Romberg: Conversationslexicon for fine arts. Renger'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1848, Volume 4, p. 351 ( books.google.de ).
  • Georg Kaspar Nagler : New General Artist Lexicon. Munich 1839, Verlag EA Fleischmann, Volume 7, p. 532 ( books.google.de ).
  • Lindau, Dietrich Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 236 .
  • Hans Joachim Neidhardt: The painting of the romantic in Dresden. Page 369, EA Seemann publishing house, 1976
  • Friedrich Müller: The artists of all times and peoples. Ebner & Seubert Verlag, Stuttgart 1860, Volume 2, p. 596 ( books.google.de ).
  • John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins (Eds.): Cyclopedia of painters and paintings. Verlag C. Scribner's sons, 1913, Volume 3, p. 81 ( books.google.de excerpt).
  • Hans Geller: Franz and Ferdinand Pettrich. Two Saxon sculptors from the classicism period. In: Research on Saxon art history. Verlag W. Jess, 1955, Volume 5, p. 182 ( books.google.de excerpt).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Inge Feuchtmayr: Johann Christian Reinhart 1761-1847. In: Materials on Nineteenth Century Art. Volume 15, p. 450, Prestel Verlag, 1975 ( books.google.de excerpt).
  2. ↑ Gerd Nauhaus, Ingrid Bodsch (eds.): Robert Schumann and Clara Schumann. Marriage diaries 1840-1844. Page 291, Verlag Stroemfeld, 2007, ISBN 978-3-86600-002-5 ( books.google.de excerpt).
  3. ^ Hans Joachim Neidhardt: The painting of the romantic in Dresden. P. 274, Verlag EA Seemann, 1976 ( books.google.de excerpt).
personal data
SURNAME Lindau, Dietrich Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lindau, Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German genre and landscape painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1862
Place of death Rome