Hendrick Joseph Dillens
Hendrick Joseph Dillens (born December 20, 1812 in Ghent , † December 4, 1872 in Brussels ) was a Belgian genre painter, watercolorist and lithographer.
Hendrick Joseph Dillens was the older brother of Adolphe-Alexandre Dillens , father of the painter Albert Dillens and the sculptor Julien Dillens. He studied until 1830 at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Gent under Jean Baptiste Lodewijk Maes-Canini (1794-1856). From 1843 to 1854 he lived in Antwerp and then settled in Brussels.
He painted genre and history pictures from everyday life in the Belgian province. He exhibited his works in 1859 and 1862 at the trade fair in Ghent, in 1854 and 1860 in Brussels, in 1861 and 1870 in Antwerp and at the Paris World Exhibition in 1867 .
He gave private painting lessons to Firmin Bouvy , Louis De Taeye, Adolphe-Alexandre Dillens and Jeannette Grover,
literature
- Adrien Jean Joseph Delen: Dillens, Hendrik . 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. 293 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Henri Dillens. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
- Dillens, Henri-Joseph in: Dictionnaire des peintres belges (digitized version )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dillens, Hendrick Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian genre and history painter as well as watercolorist and lithographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 20, 1812 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ghent |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th December 1872 |
| Place of death | Brussels |