Richard Tom Dieck

Johann Heinrich Richard tom Dieck (born November 9, 1862 in Oldenburg (Oldb) ; † January 8, 1943 there ) was a German painter and curator .

Richard tom Dieck:
Heathland with Schafskoven
(watercolor / pencil, approx. 1885)

Life

Richard tom Dieck was the son of the Oldenburg businessman Nikolaus Friedrich tom Dieck (1826–1879) and his wife Eleonore, nee. Lange (1831-1906). He was a nephew of the history painter August tom Dieck and a cousin of the women's rights activist Helene Lange .

Richard tom Dieck received his first lessons at the grand ducal gallery in the Augusteum from its curator Sophus Diedrichs (1817-1893). With him he met Gerhard Bakenhus , with whom he made a lifelong friendship. Since he was unable to study art due to the illness and the death of his father, he went to Berlin in 1880 to do an apprenticeship as a decorative and theater painter with the theater painter Julius Lechner at the opera house. Equipped with a scholarship from Oldenburg Grand Duke Peter II , the renowned Coburg theater painters Max Brückner (1836–1919) and Gotthold Brückner (1844–1892) spent two years in the studio from 1881 . Their set design workshop was one of the most respected German studios and shaped the style of Meiningen and Bayreuth theater decorations as well as numerous foreign theaters.

He spent another two years in a Coburg decorating studio and returned to Oldenburg in 1884. Here he worked in the studio of Wilhelm Mohrmann (1849–1934), a very well-known workshop in Northern Germany. In 1885 he was involved in the design of the 7th Oldenburg trade exhibition . From 1888 he taught at the newly opened arts and crafts school and from 1893 he was entrusted with the supervision of the grand ducal painting collection in the Augusteum. He received the necessary lessons in history painting in 1894 at the Royal Gallery in Dresden under the supervision of the director Karl Woermann . From 1895 he was responsible for reorganizing the libraries and art collections in all objects belonging to the Grand Duke, and in 1900 he was appointed curator.

In 1904 Tom Dieck was one of the founders of the Oldenburger Künstlerbund, alongside Paul Müller-Kaempff , Bernhard Winter and Gerhard Bakenhus, and was also a member of the board. In addition to managing the Northwest German Art Exhibition in Oldenburg in 1905 , he was also represented here with the oil painting "Evening in the Heath". From 1906 he was also on the board of the Oldenburger Kunstverein . In 1919 he was awarded the Golden Medal for Science and Art , and in 1920 he retired.

He now devoted himself more to his own painting and went on extensive art trips, for example to Italy, Paris and Vienna. The focus of his artistic work was the landscape, especially the nature around his hometown. Richard tom Dieck died shortly after his 80th birthday, his urn was buried in the Gertrudenfriedhof in Oldenburg. The city of Oldenburg named a street after him in honor of the artist, Richard-Tom-Dieck-Straße.

"From the turn of the century to the Second World War, he was an indispensable institution for the Oldenburg art scene and shaped it through his publicly effective activities."

- Oldenburg City Museum

Exhibitions

1932, for his 70th birthday in the Augusteum Oldenburg
2012, for the 150th birthday: Richard tom Dieck: More than landscape - or: A life for art. Exhibition in the Oldenburg City Museum from May 20 to August 26, 2012

literature

Dieck, Richard tom . 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. 226–227 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
Karl Veit Riedel: Dieck, Johann Heinrich Richard tom. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 147–148 ( online edition of the Oldenburg State Library, section C – D ).
Anna Martens: Richard tom Dieck: Life and work of an Oldenburg painter (1862-1943). In: Oldenburger Jahrbuch des Oldenburger Landesverein für Geschichte, Natur- und Heimatkunde , Oldenburg 1948, pp. 84–96, ( full text: Landesbibliothek Oldenburg digital )

Web links

Commons : Richard tom Dieck - collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Richard tom Dieck in the catalog of the German National Library
Rainer Beßling: With palette and brush into nature. Kreiszeitung.de, June 5, 2012, accessed on October 13, 2016 .
Regina Jerichow: From the clipboard to the museum: landscapes by Richard tom Dieck - painter in secret. In: Nordwest-Zeitung. nwzonline.de, May 19, 2012, accessed October 15, 2016 .

Individual evidence

^ Northwest German Art Exhibition Oldenburg 1905. In: German Art and Decoration , 17, 1905, p. 38, ( digitalisat Uni Heidelberg )

↑ Exhibitions 2012: Richard tom Dieck. More than landscape - or: a life for art. (No longer available online.) Oldenburg City Museum, 2012, archived from the original on October 19, 2016 ; accessed on October 15, 2016 .

↑ Udo Elerd (ed.): Richard tom Dieck: More than landscape - or: A life for art. (= Publications of the Stadtmuseum Oldenburg; Volume 63), Isensee, Oldenburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-89995-865-2 .

personal data
SURNAME	Tom Dieck, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Tom Dieck, Johann Heinrich Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and conservator
DATE OF BIRTH	November 9, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH	Oldenburg (Oldb)
DATE OF DEATH	January 8, 1943
Place of death	Oldenburg (Oldb)

[1] Northwest German Art Exhibition Oldenburg 1905. In: German Art and Decoration , 17, 1905, p. 38, ( digitalisat Uni Heidelberg )

[2] Exhibitions 2012: Richard tom Dieck. More than landscape - or: a life for art. (No longer available online.) Oldenburg City Museum, 2012, archived from the original on October 19, 2016 ; accessed on October 15, 2016 .

[3] Udo Elerd (ed.): Richard tom Dieck: More than landscape - or: A life for art. (= Publications of the Stadtmuseum Oldenburg; Volume 63), Isensee, Oldenburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-89995-865-2 .