Peter Martinus Dillen

Peter Martinus Dillen (born August 6, 1890 in Mierlo-Hout ( Noord-Brabant ), † December 28, 1985 in Rosenheim ) was a Dutch-German painter and draftsman .

Life

After studying drawing and painting in the textile printing shop of Pieter Fentener van Vlissingen , PM Dillen went to the Art Academy in Amsterdam in 1916 and was immediately placed in the “great class” of Prof. van der Waay . His first year of study is crowned with the Godschalk Prize of 100 guilders. In addition, he will be granted a generous scholarship for the coming years to cover his studies.

Since the days of the academy, rural life in Brabant is no longer the exclusive subject of his pictures. There arise u. a. large format nudes . The influence of 19th century artists such as Anselm Feuerbach or Gustave Moreau is evident in many nude studies. After he left Amsterdam and returned to Mierlo-Hout, he produced a series of impressive etchings in 1920. During his study trips through the Netherlands, Belgium and France, he paints in particular landscapes and a series of portraits.

In 1933 he married Marianne Rolffs, daughter of the Bonn government architect Julius Rolffs , whom he had met in the drawing department at van Vlissingen, and moved with her to Rosenheim in Upper Bavaria. At the same time, however, he kept his studio in Mierlo-Hout, where he worked regularly, in the decades that followed.

Exhibitions

• 1980, Gemeentmuseum Helmond (NL)
• 1980, Städtische Galerie Rosenheim

literature

• Catalog "Peter Martinus Dillen", Helmond / Rosenheim 1980
• Dillen, Petrus Martinus . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 566 .