Hubert Dietrich

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Still life with jug and newspaper , 1972. (Photo: Adolf Bereuter)

Hubert Dietrich (born September 12, 1930 in Mellau , Vorarlberg , † March 20, 2006 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter and restorer. He built up the master class for restoration and conservation at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and headed the restoration workshop of the Kunsthistorisches Museum . At the same time, he created an extensive artistic work.

Life

Hubert Dietrich's father, Kaspar Ambros Dietrich, was a game warden and ran a small farm; the mother, Katharina b. Hammerer, came from a family who worked in the hospitality industry. Hubert Dietrich was married to Annette geb. Pott, he had three children, Katharina, Georg and Margarete.

Way to art

Still life with a white cup, 1966. (Photo: Adolf Bereuter)

Hubert Dietrich grew up as the youngest of six children in Mellau in the Bregenzerwald. The mother died when he was seven years old. After an abandoned hunting apprenticeship, he attended the trade school in Innsbruck from 1948 to 1951. He took the subjects of painting and graphic design. There he met Oswald Oberhuber , with whom he had a close friendship and intensive artistic collaboration in the 1950s. In 1951/1952 he studied painting under Willi Baumeister at the Stuttgart Art Academy . 1954/1955 he attended the class of Albert Paris Gütersloh at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna . In between he kept returning to his hometown Mellau to work artistically there. He earned his living with simple painting jobs. In 1959 he passed the master's examination as a painter and house painter.

restorer

Still life with art card, 1973. (Photo: Adolf Bereuter)

In 1960 Hubert Dietrich finally moved to Vienna and began training as a painting restorer with Josef Hajsinek at the Kunsthistorisches Museum . The restoration - in contrast to the painting trade - gave him the opportunity to combine his love of art with his profession and thus to pursue his artistic work in financial independence. In 1968 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in painting restoration. From 1970 he worked as a self-employed restorer, including for the collector Rudolf Leopold .

In 1979 he took over the management of the restoration workshop of the Kunsthistorisches Museum . A little later he was appointed to the University of Applied Arts in Vienna . There he built up the master class for restoration. He held these two functions until his retirement in 1998.

Artist

Two trees , 1980. (Photo: Adolf Bereuter)

Despite his internationally acclaimed work as a restorer and university lecturer, his own artistic work remained the focus of his interest. After his retirement he devoted himself exclusively to painting until the end of his life. Dietrich remained closely connected to the Bregenzerwald until his death. There he found his most important motifs as a painter.

Artistic work

Dietrich's catalog raisonné includes approx. 300 oil paintings , 300 pencil drawings, 80 watercolors and 100 prints . The works are in free float or in public and private collections, e.g. B .:

Artistic development

In the early 1950s, Hubert Dietrich mainly worked in the abstract and in this phase can be assigned to the Austrian Informel . In the second half of the 1950s, more and more fine landscape drawings and oil paintings of the mountains around Mellau were added. In the early 1960s he created his first small, precisely painted still life, which is so characteristic of his work . For the next ten years it dealt almost exclusively with this subject artistically. At the beginning of the 1970s he turned back to landscape painting , which - alongside still lifes - was his main interest until the end of his life.

Topics in the factory

Kanisfluh with Gschwind II , 1997. (Photo: Adolf Bereuter)

The most common themes in his landscape paintings are the mountains of the Bregenz Forest , but also the Vienna Woods and the Wiener Neustädter Canal. He composed his still lifes from simple objects - glasses, bottles, dolls, letters, etc. - which he was constantly looking for and collecting. He painted some of these objects over and over again over the decades.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1954: Galerie Beno, Zurich (together with Oswald Oberhuber )
  • 1965: Galerie Hämmerle, Götzis
  • 1966: Gallery in the Taxispalais Innsbruck (together with Walter Salzmann )
  • 1967: Galerie Würthle, Vienna
  • 1972: Galerie Hämmerle, Götzis
  • 1976: Galerie Hämmerle, Götzis
  • 1978: Mellau community , summer exhibition
  • 1986: Arthouse Gallery, Bregenz
  • 1988: Bregenzerwald cultural series
  • 1990: Galerie Hämmerle, Götzis
  • 1998: “Die Brücke” gallery, Bezau
  • 2000: Mellau community , summer exhibition
  • 2001: Galerie Neunzendorf, Zendorf Upper Austria
  • 2002: Culture in the Seitenstetten Abbey
  • 2003: The store, Strozzigasse Vienna
  • 2006: City Museum Wiener Neustadt
  • 2006: Mellau community, summer exhibition
  • 2010: Angelika Kauffmann Museum, Schwarzenberg
  • 2013: Galerie Kontur, Vienna
  • 2016: Rohnerhaus, Lauterach, in cooperation with the vorarlberg museum , Hubert Dietrich in the context of Rudolf Wacker , Max Weiler and others

literature

Diedamskopf with a snow-covered path and trees , 1990s. (Photo: Adolf Bereuter)

Books and catalogs

  • Exhibition catalog Galerie Hämmerle, Götzis 1965.
  • Exhibition catalog Galerie im Thurn und Taxispalais, Innsbruck 1966.
  • Exhibition catalog Galerie Würthle, Vienna 1967.
  • Hubert Dietrich - Painting Graphics. Brochure for the exhibition in Mellau 2000, designed by Harry Metzler. Self-published.
  • Hubert Dietrich. Monograph with catalog raisonné, edited by Margarete Dietrich. Bucherverlag, Hohenems / Vienna 2009.
  • Hubert Dietrich - The love of the visible world. Brochure for the exhibition in the Rohnerhaus 2016, published by the vorarlberg museum .

items

  • Heinz Mackowitz: Hubert Dietrich and Walter Salzmann . In: Tiroler Nachrichten , March 3, 1966.
  • Otto Breicha : On the path of small steps. In: Vorarlberger Nachrichten , October 31, 1967.
  • Franz Bertel: An orderly place in chaos - Hubert Dietrich in the Galerie Hämmerle. In: Neue Vorarlberger Tageszeitung , October 1972.
  • Johanna Ess: Accuracy and deep truth In: Vorarlberger Nachrichten, October 19, 1976.
  • Eduard Hammerl: Renunciation of aura. In: Vorarlberger Nachrichten , December 2, 1982.
  • Karlheinz Pichler: Under the sign of object and landscape. In: Journal for Culture and Society , May 2016.
  • Ariane Grabher: Immersed in a new light. In: Vorarlberger Nachrichten , April 30th, May 1st, 2016.

Web links

Commons : Hubert Dietrich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Description of the exhibition on the Vorarlberg Museum website, accessed on June 27, 2016.
  2. ^ Book description on the publisher's website, accessed on June 27, 2016.
  3. ↑ The love of the visible world on the vorarlberg museum website
personal data
SURNAME Dietrich, Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and restorer
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Mellau , Vorarlberg
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 2006
Place of death Vienna