Johann Christoph Dietzsch

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Johann Christoph Dietzsch (born March 9, 1710 in Nuremberg ; † December 11, 1769 there ) was a German draftsman , engraver and painter .

Life

Johann Christoph Dietzsch: copper engraving around 1760

Johann Christoph Dietzsch was born on March 9, 1710 as a descendant of a Nuremberg artist family. Also the father Johann Israel Dietzsch (1681–1755), the siblings Barbara Regina Dietzsch (1706–1783), Georg Friedrich Dietzsch (1717–1755), Johann Albert Dietzsch (1720–1784), Johann Jakob Dietzsch (1713–1786), Johann Sigmund Dietzsch (1707–1775) and Margaretha Barbara Dietzsch (1726–1795) worked as draftsmen, engravers and painters in Nuremberg. The Dietzsch family was resident and did not leave Nuremberg even with good offers. Between 1730 and his death in 1769 Dietzsch made drawings, watercolors, copperplate engravings and paintings with opaque colors. He mainly depicted landscapes with rural staffage . Johann Christoph Dietzsch died in Nuremberg in December 1769.

Johann Christoph Dietzsch published several series of copper engravings, including a series with six large landscape etchings from Knorr, a series with 41 smaller sheets, which he edited with the help of his brother Johann Albrecht, eleven sheets depicting the city of Nuremberg and thirty sheets with artist portraits. As a watercolorist and opaque paint painter, Johann Christoph Dietzsch made flower and genre pieces in the Dutch style. Maria Catharina Prestel engraved a series of six sheets with depictions of landscapes after him.

The work of Johann Christoph Dietzsch was respected and coveted in his time. Johann Christoph Dietzsch owned a cabinet of natural objects and curiosities that was well known in his time .

Auctions

  • 1825 in Nuremberg: 2nd sheet landscapes, counterparts; wooded areas with figures.
    • 2 sheets of other landscapes, counterparts of the same treatment.
    • 2 sheets of other similar items, drawn and inked in pen.
    • View of a ruin similar to that of the Coliseum.
    • 2 sheets. Groups of country people in landscapes.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bosl's Bavarian biography, 8000 personalities from 15 centuries, Regensburg, Pustet, 1983, p. 141
  2. ↑ DIRECTORY OF THE v.DERSCHAUISCHE Kunstkabinett zu NÜRNBERG .... Nuremberg, at the obligated auctionator Schmidmer., 1825., 250 p., Directory of rare art collections., 1825., Google Books, online , p. 72 and 73, (51st to 55th)

literature

Web links

  • Johann Christoph Dietzsch in the Fitzwilliam Museum [1]
  • Vague family information about Dietzsch from 1810 [2]
personal data
SURNAME Dietzsch, Johann Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nuremberg opaque paint painter and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1710
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1769
Place of death Nuremberg