Josef Dederichs

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Josef Dederichs (born January 21, 1873 in Bleibuir near Mechernich , Euskirchen district , † February 7, 1958 in Cologne ) was a German landscape , marine and animal painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Dederichs was the son of the ducal arenberg forester Johann Heinrich Dederichs (1837-1915) and his wife Sofia, née Zimmermann (1845-1893). His twin sister Sofia died at the age of three months. The childhood of the boy, who grew up with eight siblings in Bleibuir, was overshadowed by an accident that left stiff legs and made him disabled for life. From 1879 he went to the Bleibuir elementary school for eight years, where he showed a talent for drawing and painting in class. After an interim period, possibly an apprenticeship in the ducal arenberg administration, he attended, encouraged and supported by the family of Duke Engelbert-Maria von Arenberg , from around 1901 the Düsseldorf Art Academy . During his studies he made a copy of the painting Summer Night on the Rhine by Christian Eduard Böttcher . He then became a private student of the landscape painter Fritz von Wille , who was also his great role model artistically.

In 1910 Dederichs settled as a freelance painter, first in Cologne's Südstadt , and soon after in Cologne- Bayenthal . Released from military service in the First World War, he met his wife Agnes in 1914, an employed dentist from Rodenkirchen , who gave birth to daughter Anni after marriage and set up her own dental practice in Bayenthal. Around 1930, Dederichs, as a painter, also had an address at Salierring 5 in Cologne. After his Bayenthal residence was destroyed by a bomb attack during the Second World War , he moved to Bleibuir to live with his sister Margaretha Beul, where he devoted himself to outdoor painting, while his wife, who had returned to work as a dentist, and his daughter in Cologne remained. After the house in Bayenthal was rebuilt, Dederichs moved there again. At the age of 85 he died in his house at Droste-Hülshoff-Straße 20.

On regular vacation and study trips that Dederichs took with his wife and daughter to the coasts of Belgium and the Netherlands, the Alps, Italy and Norway, he sketched his motifs, which he worked out into paintings in his Cologne studio: port pictures with ships, Ships at sea, flower markets, views of the Alps and fjords. He also made a name for himself with views from the Eifel and the Rhine. He also painted animal and hunting motifs as well as fruit and flower still lifes.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016), PDF
  2. ^ Johann Heinrich Dederichs (1837–1915) , genealogical data sheet in the portal gw.geneanet.org , accessed on April 12, 2019
  3. ↑ One source reports that he was run over by a ducal carriage, another reports that he fell from a mountain slope as a sow driver while hunting.
  4. ^ "Summer Collection" in the Eifelmuseum Blankenheim , website in the portal Unserort.de , accessed on April 12, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Dederichs, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape, marine and animal painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Bleibuir near Mechernich , Euskirchen district
DATE OF DEATH 7th February 1958
Place of death Cologne