Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich

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Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich
C. W. E. Dietrich (1767); portrait by Anton Graff
Born(1712-10-30)October 30, 1712
Weimar, Thuringia, Germany
DiedApril 23, 1774(1774-04-23) (aged 61)
Dresden, Saxony, Germany

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich (30 October 1712 – 23 April 1774) was a German painter and art administrator. In his own works, he was adept at imitating many earlier artists, but never developed a style of his own.

Early life

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, Portrait of a Woman with a Straw Hat

Dietrich was born at

Maria Dorothea Dietrich.[2]

Career

Dietrich was sent to

Augustus II. He was so pleased with Dietrich's work that he gave him means to study abroad, and visit the chief cities of Italy and the Netherlands. There he learned to copy and to imitate masters of the previous century with a versatility that was truly surprising. Johann Joachim Winckelmann, to whom he had been recommended, called him the Raphael of landscape. His landscapes were frequently based on the works of Salvator Rosa and Allaert van Everdingen.[1]

He was also successful in aping the style of

scripture scenes and still life.[1] He also created multiple engravings, a collection of which are at the British Museum
and are inspired by Ostade and Rembrandt.

In 1741 he was appointed court painter to

Augustus III at Dresden, with an annual salary of 400 thalers, conditional on the production of four cabinet pictures a year. This condition likely accounts for the presence of fifty-two of the master's panels and canvases in one of the rooms at the Dresden museum.[1] In 1746, he was appointed inspector of galleries.[citation needed
]

Dietrich, though popular and probably the busiest artist of his time, never produced anything of his own.

Dietrich, after his return from the Peninsula, generally signed himself Dieterich, and with this signature most of his extant pictures are inscribed.[1]

Later years and death

He died at Dresden, after he had successively filled the important appointments of director of the school of painting at the Meissen

Dresden Academy of Art (appointed 1765).[1]

Gallery

  • The Holy Family in a Carpenter's Shop
    The Holy Family in a Carpenter's Shop
  • The Flight into Egypt
    The Flight into Egypt
  • Christ Before the People
    Christ Before the People
  • Christ's Entombment
    Christ's Entombment
  • Haberdasher
    Haberdasher
  • The Wandering Musicians
    The Wandering Musicians
  • concert champetre 1737" oil on canvas
    concert champetre 1737" oil on canvas

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f Chisholm 1911.
  2. ^ "Old Master Paintings - Maria Dorothea Wagner - Dorotheum". Dorotheum. Retrieved 9 December 2018.

References

Attribution:

External links

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