Johann Georg von Dillis

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Johann Georg von Dillis
Grave of Johann Dillis on the old southern cemetery in Munich location

Johann Georg Dillis , from 1808 by Dillis (born December 26, 1759 in Gmain near Schwindkirchen, today Dorfen ; † September 28, 1841 in Munich ), raised to the personal nobility on May 19, 1808, was a German painter who today is best known for his depictions of rural life and his travel sketches. He is one of the most important German artists of the time around 1800 and is considered the most important representative of the so-called Munich School .

life and work

Dillis was born as the first child of a forester family and graduated from today's Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich in 1775 . He then completed the compulsory basic course (= philosophy) at the Munich Lyceum, then began studying theology there, which he continued at the University of Ingolstadt from 1779. In 1782 he was ordained a priest in Ingolstadt. However, he soon felt the desire to devote himself more to painting.

Up to the beginning of the 19th century he was mainly busy giving painting lessons in German aristocratic houses (families of the Counts von Salern, von Baumgarten, von Nogarola and Oberndorf von Seinsheim and the barons of Aretin and von Stengel, von Posch and von Käser) ; Later, thanks to recommendations, he was able to accompany young German and English nobles on trips to the Mediterranean , which benefited his development as a painter. With the Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig , Dillis made several trips to Italy, particularly Rome and Sicily. On these trips Dillis made numerous watercolor sketches , which were intended as studies for later vedute in oil . To today's eye, however, the sketches and studies appear much more modern than his fully elaborated vedute due to their detail and Dillis' perfect language of colors and shapes.

One of the inspirations for Dillis' work was the ideal landscapes by Claude Lorrain , to which Dillis refers several times in his sketches. Furthermore Dillis about 150 made cloud studies with chalk on a blue background on the former enthusiasm for this subject after the introduction of cloud classification by Luke Howard following. On behalf of King Ludwig I, Georg von Dillis made a portrait copy of the monarch in 1827 for his former tutor Louise Weyland in Mannheim .

In his day, Dillis was practically unknown as a painter. In 1790 he was employed as the electoral picture gallery inspector and in 1822 he was promoted to the royal "Central Gallery Director", whereby he achieved contemporary prominence. His work here is best known to posterity through the conception of the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, for which Dillis was inspired, among other things, by the Louvre . Between 1808 and 1814 he was professor of landscape painting at the Munich Academy . He has increasingly complained about administrative work and lack of time for artistic activities. Some of his landscape and portrait paintings have belonged to the collection of the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich since the second half of the 19th century .

The grave site of Dillis is on the Old Southern Cemetery in Munich (Gräberfeld 13 - Row 2 - Place 23) location .

Museums (selection)

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Neue Pinakothek , Munich, retrospective on the 150th anniversary of death, November 29, 1991 - February 9, 1992, then in the Albertinum (Dresden) , March 1, 1992 - May 3, 1992
  • Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau, Munich, Johann Georg von Dillis (1759-1841) - The Art of the Private , September 6th - November 30th, 2003
  • Hamburger Kunsthalle , June 14 to September 12, 2004
  • Schwindkirchen, Wolfgang-Meier-Haus, Dillis festival week for the 250th birthday, October 17th to 25th, 2009.
  • Museum Georg Schäfer , Schweinfurt: Art itself is nature. Johann Georg von Dillis 1759–1841 , January 22 - April 23, 2017

Honor

  • 1840: Cross of the Order of Ludwig for the 50th anniversary of service

literature

  • Balthasar Speth : Memories of Johann Georg von Dillis , Munich 1844 (digitized version) .
  • Marggraff:  Dillis, Johann Georg von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, pp. 229-237.
  • Margarete Braun-Ronsdorf, Ulrich Christoffel:  Dillis, Maximilian Johann Georg von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , pp. 720 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Waldemar Lessing: Johann Georg von Dillis. As an artist and museum man from 1759–1841 . Bruckmann, Munich 1951.
  • Richard Messerer: Georg von Dillis. Life and Work , in: Oberbayerisches Archiv 84, 1961, pp. 7–186.
  • Richard Messerer (Ed.): Correspondence between Ludwig I of Bavaria and Georg von Dillis 1807 - 1841 . CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1966 (series of publications on Bavarian regional history, volume 65).
  • Christoph Heilmann (Ed.): Johann Georg von Dillis. 1759-1841. Landscape and image of man . Prestel, Munich 1991.
  • Barbara Hardtwig: Johann Georg von Dillis (1759-1841). The art of the private. Drawings from the estate of the Historical Association of Upper Bavaria. Exhibition catalog Lenbach-Haus Munich. Wienand, Cologne 2003.
  • Christiane Schachtner: "Ready to travel day and night ..." The travel sketchbooks by the Munich artist and gallery director Johann Georg von Dillis (1759-1841). Aesthetic and epistemic processes of drawing and writing while traveling. Eos, St. Ottilien 2014.
  • District association for heritage protection and monument preservation in the district of Erding (ed.): Johann Georg von Dillis: Family - Life - Creating , Präbst, Dorfen 2015.
  • The art itself is nature. Johann Georg von Dillis 1759–1841. Paintings and drawings in the collection of the Georg Schäfer Museum , exhibition catalog, concept and processing: Karin Rhein, Schweinfurt: Georg Schäfer Museum 2017.

Web links

Commons : Johann Georg von Dillis  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Information from the Lenbachhaus, Munich.
  2. ↑ Barbara Hardtwig at froelichundkaufmann.de Quotation from the catalog of the special exhibitions 1991, 1992.
  3. ^ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vol., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 3, p. 148.
  4. ↑ Testimonium publicum profectus eorum, qui in Electorali Lyceo, et utroque Gymnasio Momacensi scientiis et artibus liberalibus praestantem navarunt operam. Munich 1776.
  5. ↑ Götz Frh. V. Pölnitz: The register of the Ludwig Maximilian University , Munich 1939 ff.
  6. ↑ K. Schottenloher: The Bavarians in a foreign country . Munich 1950.
  7. ↑ Andreas Andersen, Josef Eduard Wessely: The German painter-Radirer, peintres-gravenrs, of the nineteenth century, after their lives and works , third volume, Leipzig 1869, p. 139.
  8. ↑ a b c Monika Goedl: Avantgardist in Bavaria , Die Zeit, January 10, 1992, zeitonline .
  9. ^ A b Margarete Meggle-Freund: Romantic Landscapes, Text on the opening of the exhibition , Landsberg, 2010.
  10. ↑ Cloud Study | Hamburger Kunsthalle. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .
  11. ↑ “Correspondence between Ludwig I of Bavaria and Georg von Dillis 1807-1841” , Beck Verlag, 1966, page 653; Excerpt from the source .
  12. ^ Homepage Lenbachhaus. Retrieved April 8, 2019 .
  13. ^ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Bavaria , 1824 books.google.de ; Trivia: Joseph Dillis gained media and hunting historical fame as the person responsible for killing Germany's last bear .
  14. ↑ Entry on artcyclopedia.com.
  15. ↑ Irene Netta, Ursula Keltz: 75 years of the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich . Ed .: Helmut Friedel. Self-published by the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-88645-157-7 , p. 232 .
  16. ↑ Life and work of Johann Georg von Dillis. The ingenious draftsman can be discovered in the Lenbachhaus. Chiemgauer Blätter, year 2003, September 28, 2003.
personal data
SURNAME Dillis, Johann Georg von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dillis, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1759
PLACE OF BIRTH Villages
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1841
Place of death Munich