Leonhard Diefenbach

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Leonhard Diefenbach (born September 10, 1814 in Hadamar ; † August 13, 1875 at Hohenburg Castle in Lenggries ) was a German painter and teacher .

Life

Diefenbach was born as the son of the baker, landlord and mayor of Hadamar Jakob Diefenbach. He attended the Hadamar pedagogy and then learned drawing at the Scholz lithographic institute in Wiesbaden. He attended the painting academies in Munich and Frankfurt. From April 8, 1845 to 1870, he taught as a drawing teacher at Hadamar Gymnasium. His son Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach also became a painter. Diefenbach trained the painter Kaspar Kögler .

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Diefenbach's work is very extensive. His children's, youth and drawing textbooks, which were published by Thienemann in Stuttgart or Scholz in Mainz from 1855, are well known. A myriad of drawings, watercolors and oil paintings of Nassau views are just as much a part of his work as landscapes and portraits. His hometown was one of his favorite subjects. Emperor Franz Josef of Austria was the first artist to award Diefenbach the gold medal for art and science. The occasion was a watercolor that the arrival of the emperor in front of Schloss Biebrich showed on 21 August. 1863 He spent his twilight years painting with Duke Adolf von Nassau in Lenggries, where he also died.

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  1. ^ Report on the visit of the Austrian Emperor Franz Josef to the Biebrich Castle , section 41, accessed on March 4, 2011.
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SURNAME Diefenbach, Leonhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Hadamar
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1875
Place of death Hohenburg Castle, Lenggries