Joseph Dorn
Joseph Dorn (born August 12, 1759 in Kratz-Sambach ; † August 6, 1841 in Bamberg ) was a painter, restorer and gallery inspector.
Life
The tailor's son Joseph Dorn was a student of Joseph Marquard Treu (student of Johann Rudolf Byss ) in Bamberg and married his daughter Rosalie in 1787.
Dorn in 1802 inspector of the gallery in the Schloss Weissenstein whether Pommersfelden . This gallery was already world-famous when it was built under the building owner of the palace, Prince-Bishop Lothar Franz von Schönborn, and is still the largest private collection of paintings in Germany today. Dorn also distinguished himself there as a restorer. He probably drew up the inventory list from 1805 and was responsible for the restoration of the pictures that were relocated due to armed conflicts.
In his time he was also an esteemed painter, of whom the Städtische Galerie Bamberg owns 27 paintings - mostly genre pictures - most of which had been left to the city hospital; most of them marked and dated. He engraved a portrait of the last Prince-Bishop of Bamberg, Christoph Franz von Buseck (1724–1805), by Christoph Wilhelm Bock (1754–1830).
His first wife Rosalie Treu (born February 18, 1741 in Bamberg, † December 19, 1830 in Bamberg) was also a painter. Her portraits of Hofrat Johann Alberich Ignaz Böttinger (1722–1772) and Count von Rotenhan were praised.
literature
- Karl Sitzmann: artist and craftsman in Eastern Franconia. Kulmbach 1957, p. 111.
- Dorn, Joseph . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 9 : Delaulne-Dubois . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1913, p. 478–479 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
- General artist lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples. Volume 29: Donny – You. KG Saur, Munich 2001, p. 86.
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt: Bock, Christoph Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 762 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dorn, Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Painter, restorer and gallery inspector |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1759 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kratz-Sambach |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 6, 1841 |
| Place of death | Bamberg |