Friedrich Christoph Dietrich
Friedrich Christoph Dietrich (born April 3, 1779 in Öhringen , † May 25, 1847 in Lodz ) was a German lithographer and engraver .
Life
He was born on April 3, 1779 in Öhringen in Württemberg. His father Johann Georg Christian Dietrich was a goldsmith at the court of Prince Hohenlohe .
He learned from the Öhringen master builder Johann Sebastian Probst, the history painter Johann Jakob Schillinger and the architect Johann Glenck. Later he went to Augsburg to work in the engraving workshop of Johann D. Herz the Elder. J. and then to do an apprenticeship with Christian Haldenwang in Karlsruhe . In 1804 he returned to Öhringen , where he became a court engraver .
In 1809 he tried his luck in Amsterdam . There he worked until 1817 and created a large number of works, 26 of which are exhibited in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam .
After further stints in London , Berlin and Posen , he finally moved to Warsaw in 1819 . Thanks to the support of Stanisław Kostka Potocki, the Polish Government Commission for Religious Confessions and Public Enlightenment commissioned him in 1819 to create 24 plates for the publication of the royal tombs Monumenta Regnum Poloniae Cracoviensia. At the same time he took on administrative functions. In 1820 he became a royal game warden, and five years later he was the inspector of the credit company's main office. As a copper engraver, he created many illustrations for magazines, publications by Franciszek Dmochowski and panoramas of Warsaw , Cracow and Lublin . In addition, he documented the bloody events on the streets of Warsaw that led to the outbreak of the November uprising in 1830.
Towards the end of his life he moved to Lódz , where he contracted typhus and died on May 25, 1847. He was married twice and had a total of fifteen children.
Web links
- Copper engravings by Friedrich Christoph Dietrich in the Dresden State Art Collections
- Works by Friedrich Christoph Dietrich in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Individual evidence
- ^ Foundation for German-Polish Cooperation
- ^ Friedrich Christoph Dietrich in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
biography
- Maria Bartczakówna: Dietrich Friedrich Christoph (1779-1847) . In: Władysław Konopczyński (Ed.): Polski Słownik Biograficzny .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dietrich, Friedrich Christoph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lithographer and engraver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1779 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Öhringen |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 25, 1847 |
| Place of death | Lodz |