Portrait of a Nobleman
Christian Wilhelm Dietrich (Weimar 1712 - Dresden 1774), attr.
Lot-No. 13
Oil/wood, 33 x 25,5 cm, min. rest. - History, figure a. landscape painter as well as etcher, one of the most versatile a. appreciated painters of his time, son of the Weimar court painter Johann Georg D., already at the age of twelve he became pupil of A. Thiele in Dresden, because of his extraordinary talent he enjoyed the patronage of king August the Strong a. his minister Brühl, in 1741 he became painter to the court in Dresden, a position he kept notwithstanding offers from Copenhagen a. Berlin, travelled to Holland a. Italy, in 1764 he became professor in Dresden a. head of the drawing school of the Meißen porcelain manufacture. - Mus.: Paris (Louvre), St. Petersburg (Eremitage), New York (Metrop. Mus.), Dresden (Gemäldegal. Alte Meister), Wien (Hofmus.), London (British Mus.), Cambridge (Fitzwilliam Mus.), Nürnberg (Germ. Nat.-Mus.), Moskau, a. others. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, a. others.
Christian Wilhelm Dietrich: Portrait of a Nobleman
Christian Wilhelm Dietrich (Weimar 1712 - Dresden 1774), attr.
Portrait of a Nobleman
Lot-No. 13
Oil/wood, 33 x 25,5 cm, min. rest. - History, figure a. landscape painter as well as etcher, one of the most versatile a. appreciated painters of his time, son of the Weimar court painter Johann Georg D., already at the age of twelve he became pupil of A. Thiele in Dresden, because of his extraordinary talent he enjoyed the patronage of king August the Strong a. his minister Brühl, in 1741 he became painter to the court in Dresden, a position he kept notwithstanding offers from Copenhagen a. Berlin, travelled to Holland a. Italy, in 1764 he became professor in Dresden a. head of the drawing school of the Meißen porcelain manufacture. - Mus.: Paris (Louvre), St. Petersburg (Eremitage), New York (Metrop. Mus.), Dresden (Gemäldegal. Alte Meister), Wien (Hofmus.), London (British Mus.), Cambridge (Fitzwilliam Mus.), Nürnberg (Germ. Nat.-Mus.), Moskau, a. others. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, a. others.