Matthias Diesel

Matthias Diesel (also Matthias Disel , Mathias Disel , Matthias Disel , Matthias Dißl * 5 February 1675 in Bernried on Lake Starnberg ; † 11. March 1752 in Munich ) was a German landscape architect and Vedutenzeichner .

Diesel's work documents baroque gardens as they were typically laid out around Paris , Salzburg and Munich. His drawings and the copperplate engravings made from them are also the most important and often the only source for depicting baroque palace gardens in Bavaria in the early 18th century.

Life

Copper engraving by Matthias Diesel Skittles in the Nymphenburg Palace Park from "Erlustierende Augenweide ..." 1717

Matthias Diesel was trained as a gardener . He made the acquaintance of Joseph Effner , who later became the court builder of the Bavarian court , who had also initially learned the gardening trade. At that time, this profession was not limited to extensive knowledge of plant cultivation, but also included the creation of large ornamental gardens and thus the planning of broderie parterres , fountains and staffage structures .

From the autumn of 1706 to the end of April 1710, Diesel and Effner received a scholarship from the Bavarian Elector Max Emanuel to "see something solid in the pleasure and flower gardening of the famous men in France". In the gardens of the palaces of Versailles and Marly-le-Roi and the Tuileries Gardens, Diesel acquired his qualification as a horticultural architect and engineer for water technology. Diesel may have stayed in France between 1710 and 1712, but laid out a French-style garden in Alteglofsheim in 1711 . From 1712 he worked for the cardinal in Passau and was also involved in gardening for other clients.

In the autumn of 1713 Diesel became garden inspector at the Prince-Bishop's in Salzburg. During this time he was entrusted with the management of various gardens, his involvement in the design is unclear. In 1717 the first series of copper engravings of his drawings appeared.

From February 1718 Diesel got a job in the Electorate of Bavaria as an "engineer for the court and pleasure gardens" in Munich with an annual salary of 600 guilders . He was a member of the staff of the court building department, whose management was in the hands of Dominique Girard . From this point on, he documented palace gardens from the early 18th century in his copperplate engravings. His work was published in Augsburg by Jeremias Wolff , an important publishing house . The engravers were Johann August Corvinus (1683–1738) and Karl Remshard (Carl Remshart, 1678–1735).

In 1726, after the death of Max Emanuel, Diesel had to accept considerable losses in his salary due to the austerity measures of the Bavarian court. Apparently there was no regular payment at all. In 1739 he tried unsuccessfully to succeed Dominique Girard. Diesel remained on friendly terms with his fellow student, the court architect Joseph Effner, throughout his life. The copper engravings, which can be traced back to his pen-and- ink drawings, were subsequently published without naming his name; The motifs also served as templates for the Nymphenburg porcelain factory .

Works

• Enjoyable feast for the eyes in the imagination of wonderful gardens and pleasure buildings. Partly invented and laid out, partly drawn from the current location. Sequence of stitches in three parts, published by Jeremias Wolff in Augsburg in 1717.
  Topographically, the sheets include: Grand Trianon / Versailles, Marly, St. Cloud, Hacklberg near Passau, Grafenau, Hellbrunn and Köttersbrunn near Salzburg, Mirabell Gardens in Salzburg, Alteglofsheim near Regensburg , Hohenburg / Lenggries, Fürstenried, Schleißheim , Nymphenburg and Harlaching as well as the Munich Residence .
  Topic table shows Diesel Veduten, layout plans, courtyards, gardens buildings, Heckentheater, terraces , channels, and cascades , Orangerien , trellises - to patterns for the cutting of citrus and Taxusbäumen .
  Diesel does not represent interiors of castles, which distinguishes him from comparable artists such as Salomon Kleiner .
  Reprints:
  • Enjoyable feast for the eyes. The most beautiful gardens and pleasure buildings around Munich, Salzburg, Passau, Regensburg and Paris . Reprint with an afterword by Reinhard Schelenz.
    - Bibliotheca hortensis series . Volume 6. Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 1989, ISBN 3-361-00242-7 .
    - Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-421-02949-0 .
• Bavarian castles. Based on a series of vedutas around 1720 . Reprinted with an afterword by Peter Volk. Series The bibliophile paperbacks . No. 240. Harenberg, Dortmund 1981, ISBN 3-88379-240-3 .

literature

• Joseph Maillinger: Picture Chronicle of the Royal Capital and Residence City of Munich . Volume 1, No. 296 f. Montmorillon, Munich 1876, pp. 513-515, 601 f. and 627 f.
• Max Hauttmann: The Bavarian court architect Joseph Effner . Heitz, Strasbourg 1913.
• Max Hauttmann: Diesel (Disel, Dißl), Mathias . 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. 249–250 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
• Iris Lauterbach: engravings and source writings on palace, garden and fountain art . Architectura Recreationis series . Uhl, Nördlingen 1994 ff.
• Susanna Partsch: Matthias Diesel. In: Günter Meißner (ed.): Saur general artist lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples. Volume 27. Saur, Munich, Leipzig 2000, ISBN 3-598-22767-1 , p. 273.
• Clemens Alexander Wimmer, Iris Lauterbach: Bibliography of the German garden books published before 1750 . Uhl, Nördlingen 2003, ISBN 3-921503-29-9 .

Web links

Commons : Matthias Diesel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Matthias Diesel in the catalog of the German National Library