Leo Diet
Leopold Dietman (also Leo Diet , born September 12, 1857 in Prague ; † June 12/13 , 1942 in Graz ) was a Czech - Austrian painter and inventor .
Life
Diet graduated from the technical military academy in Vienna. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague with František Sequens and in Vienna with Hans Canon . Leo Diet was supported by Crown Prince Rudolf and received a grant that enabled him to study trips to Paris and from 1882 to 1887 to Egypt .
He spent the period from 1883 to 1887 in Cairo , where he created many pictures with an orientalist content. He showed sixty of these works in 1888 at the Austrian Art Association. After his return he taught at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Graz from 1895 .
In 1889 he founded the Salon of the Rejected , from which the Vienna Secession emerged.
Leo Diet invented the perspective triangle named after him in 1887 and patented it on June 15, 1893 as the instrument for producing perspective drawings .
Leo Diet received the Austrian State Prize in 1906.
Treatises
- About the congruence and the feeling of congruence and about the graphic representability of physical objects, Schroll, Vienna 1907.
literature
- Dietmann, Leopold. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1957, p. 184 f. (Direct links on p. 184 , p. 185 ).
- Steirerblatt of May 10, 1946, May 30, 1946 and June 9, 1947
- KL: Diet, Leo . 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. 252 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Diet, Leo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dietman, Leopold (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech-Austrian painter and inventor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 12, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 12, 1942 or June 13, 1942 |
| Place of death | Graz |