Johann Jakob Dorner the Younger

Hunting party at Mondsee, around 1817, Georg Schäfer Museum

Johann Jakob Dorner the Younger (* July 7, 1775 in Munich ; † December 4, 1852 there ) was a German landscape painter and printmaker. He was the son of Johann Jakob Dorner the Elder .

life and work

Dorner learned to draw from his father and first created etchings . In 1803 he drew two lithographs , memorial monuments in Abbach and Saal , which are among the earliest artistic works using this new technique. In the same year he became a restorer of the predecessor of the Alte Pinakothek , the Hofgartengalerie , of which he was appointed gallery inspector in 1808. From 1820 he fell ill with his eyes and was operated on several times, successfully. In 1824 he was made an honorary member of the academy .

His work is divided into three periods: up to the eye operations, the 1820s, whereby from 1829 a period begins that is characterized as “decline” and finally a third “without high points” after a stroke on October 8, 1843.

Dorner traveled extensively in Bavaria, especially Upper Bavaria, where he sketched intensively and created watercolors, which he used as templates for his landscape paintings. In this technique he was influenced by the circle of friends around Johann Georg von Dillis . While the sketches and studies offer a fresh impression of nature, Dorner's landscape paintings show the reception of 17th century Dutch painting even more than in the Dillis circle .

“Johann Jakob Dorner the Younger belongs to the first generation of Munich landscapers, whose most important representatives are Johann Georg Dillis […] and Wilhelm von Kobell […]. They all saw their role models in the old Dutch masters Jacob van Ruisdael and Allart van Everdingen . In contrast to traditional, ideal landscape painting, in the successor to Claude Lorrain, their goal was a realistic rendering of nature and they also tried to achieve the most realistic possible lighting situation. "

Larger holdings of his works are in the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen and in the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung Munich . Further works are exhibited in the Georg Schäfer Museum in Schweinfurt .

literature

• Wolfgang Hauke: The landscape painter Johann Jakob Dorner the Younger 1775-1852 . In: Upper Bavarian Archive . tape 91 . Historical Association of Upper Bavaria, Munich 1969, DNB  367438410 , p. 3–108 and plates (with catalog raisonné ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Werner Hauke, most recently in: General Artists Dictionary .
2. ↑ Christoph Heilmann, in: Nature as Art. Early 19th century landscape painting in Germany and France from the Christoph Heilmann Foundation in the Lenbachhaus in Munich . Heidelberg: Das Wunderhorn 2013, p. 262.