Michael Zeno Diemer

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Svalbard (1914)
Postcard with department store in Constance

Michael Zeno Diemer (born February 8, 1867 in Munich , † February 28, 1939 in Oberammergau ) was a German painter.

Life

Michael Zeno Diemer studied from 1884 in Munich with Gabriel Hackl and Alexander von Liezen-Mayer . Diemer became known for his impressive battle pictures. In 1894, in six months of work, a 1,000 m² large circular painting was created in Innsbruck depicting the Battle of Bergisel on August 13, 1809, in which Andreas Hofer led the Tyroleans to victory over the troops of Napoleon and Bavaria . The giant circular painting is one of 30 panoramic paintings from the 19th or early 20th century that have survived worldwide .

A panorama taken in 1896 depicted the battle for Bazeilles during the Battle of Sedan in the Franco-Prussian War . It was shown in a specially constructed building in Mannheim. He created several paintings for the German Museum in Munich, including a representation of a Roman aqueduct for the "Hydraulic Engineering" department, an ideal image of a medieval herb garden and the landing of the zeppelin in Munich in 1909 . In Stuttgart he furnished the Ketterer brewery restaurant with a cycle of 14 large-format paintings on the history of Swabian emigrants. Numerous landscape and marine pictures , watercolors , poster designs and postcard motifs (including depictions of airships) also come from Diemer .

He was also active as a musician and composer. He composed a. a. a "Largo for 9-part string orchestra" in 1910.

Diemer's son was the pilot Franz Zeno .

literature

  • Franz Schiermeier: Panorama Munich, Illusion and Reality, Munich as the center of panorama production . Franz Schiermeier Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-9813190-2-6

Web links

Commons : Michael Zeno Diemer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matriculation Book 1884–1920 , accessed on December 21, 2011
  2. ↑ https://www.tobias-broeker.de/rare-manuscripts/af/diemer-michael-zeno/
personal data
SURNAME Diemer, Michael Zeno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1939
Place of death Oberammergau