Johann Caspar Dilly

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Johann Caspar Dilly (born October 29, 1767 in Bonn , † October 10, 1841 in Bangstede ) was a German traveling artist who worked as a painter and silhouetteur .

Paper cut : Forester Püschelberger and woman born, Möllmann, with children . Created in 1817 in Menslage .

Life

Catharina Rebecca Sophia Möllmann, b. Gerding, wife of Pastor Bernhard Möllmann (around 1818)

Dillys paintings show family tables, engagement and wedding couples, children portraits and houseflies and garden scenes and his silhouettes make "detailed and profile sharp" from the living and clothing culture of farming families and rural upper classes Northwest Germany 1800-1840. From the ethnographic research his works as source material for the period of Biedermeier used.

Dilly signed his pictures with place, day and year so that his sphere of activity can be traced back. The first surviving work dates from 1805. Dilly migrated from Mainz to the north and stayed for a long time in Ravensberg , Bielefeld , Osnabrück and finally in Essen , where he married Anna Margarethe Hollrah in 1815, with whom he moved to her Heuerlingshaus in Hollrah the Löninger farmers moved Winkum and with whom he had a son. From 1825 his works appear in the Oldenburger Ammerland ; from there his way led to East Frisia. Presumably for economic reasons and in search of customers, he wandered again, even in old age, until his death.

Dilly was buried on October 12, 1841 in the churchyard of Bangstede, where he had collapsed on the way to the army and died two days earlier.

However, the art of silhouette had long since passed its peak. It was first replaced by the daguerreotype and finally by photography .

1999 took place in the Museum Aurich the "paper cuts Exhibition of East Frisian families. The silhouetteur Caspar Dilly in the years 1827 to 1841 ”.

literature

  • Helmut Ottenjann: Pictures of life from rural Biedermeier. Sunday clothes in the country. The silhouettes of the silhouetteur Dilly from north-western Lower Saxony. Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1984. ISBN 3-923675-03-8
  • Gertrud Angermann: You should recognize her by her appearance! Silhouettes of a Lippstadt-Bielefeld merchant family from 1791 and a miller's family from the Dornberg parish from 1805. In: 89th Annual Report of the Historical Association for the County of Ravensberg, year 2004. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2004. ISBN 3-89534-529-6
  • Helmut Ottenjann: The silhouetteur Caspar Dilly from Löningen. Family pictures of the rural population 1805–1841. Heimatbund for the Oldenburger Münsterland, The Blue Series, Issue 3. Cloppenburg 1998. ISBN 3-9804494-9-1

Web links

Commons : Johann Caspar Dilly  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ottenjann. P. 13
  2. ↑ Entry in the church book of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Bangstede Church from 1841
personal data
SURNAME Dilly, Johann Caspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and silhouetteur
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1767
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1841
Place of death Bangstede