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Albrecht Christoph Wilhelm von Diez (17 January 1839,
Wilhelm von Diez in HeidICON
- Illustrations from the "Fliegenden Blättern" {{DEFAULTSORT:Diez Wilhelm von 1839 births 1907 deaths German illustrators People from Bayreuth 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters
Albrecht Christoph Wilhelm von Diez (17 January 1839, Bayreuth
Bayreuth (, ; bar, Bareid) is a town in northern Bavaria, Germany, on the Red Main river in a valley between the Franconian Jura and the Fichtelgebirge Mountains. The town's roots date back to 1194. In the 21st century, it is the capital o ...
– 25 February 1907, Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and ...
) was a German painter and illustrator of the Munich School.
Life
He attended a trade school in Munich, followed by the Polytechnic School (precursor of theUniversity of Technology
An institute of technology (also referred to as: technological university, technical university, university of technology, technological educational institute, technical college, polytechnic university or just polytechnic) is an institution of te ...
) from 1853 to 1855 and, from 1855, the Academy of Fine Arts Munich
The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (german: Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, also known as Munich Academy) is one of the oldest and most significant art academies in Germany. It is located in the Maxvorstadt district of Munich, in Bavaria, ...
, where he was briefly a student of Karl von Piloty
Karl Theodor von Piloty (1 October 1826 – 21 July 1886) was a German painter, noted for his historical subjects, and recognised as the foremost representative of the realistic school in Germany.
Life and work
Piloty was born in Munich. His fat ...
. He didn't stay at the Academy very long, preferring to teach himself draftsmanship and painting.
He first became known through the illustrations he drew for the ''Fliegende Blätter
The ' ("Flying Leaves"; also translated as "Flying Pages" or "Loose Sheets") was a German weekly humor and satire magazine appearing between 1845 and 1944 in Munich. Many of the illustrations were by well-known artists such as Wilhelm Busch, Co ...
'', a weekly satirical magazine. In 1871, he illustrated Schiller's ''History of the Thirty-Years War''. He later turned to animal, landscape and genre painting.
Earlier in 1871, with the support of Wilhelm von Kaulbach
Wilhelm von Kaulbach (15 October 18057 April 1874) was a German painter, noted mainly as a muralist, but also as a book illustrator. His murals decorate buildings in Munich. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.
Biography
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, Diez became a teacher at the Academy and was soon elevated to Professor. In this position, he not only had a major influence on his pupils (among them, Franz Marc
Franz Moritz Wilhelm Marc (8 February 1880 – 4 March 1916) was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of German Expressionism. He was a founding member of '' Der Blaue Reiter'' (The Blue Rider), a journal whose name later ...
, Fritz Osswald, Alfred Schwarzschild, Max Slevogt
Max Slevogt (8 October 1868 – 20 September 1932) was a German Impressionist painter and illustrator, best known for his landscapes. He was, together with Lovis Corinth and Max Liebermann, one of the foremost representatives in Germany of t ...
, Wilhelm Trübner, Ludwig von Löfftz
Ludwig von Löfftz (21 June 1845 – 3 December 1910) was a German genre and landscape painter.
Biography
He was born at Darmstadt. He was a pupil of August von Kreling and Karl Raupp at Nuremberg, then of Wilhelm von Diez at the Academy of ...
, Heinrich Lefler
Heinrich Lefler (7 November 1863, in Vienna – 14 March 1919, in Vienna) was an Austrian painter, graphic artist and stage designer. His father was the painter Franz Lefler.
Life and work
From 1880 to 1884, he studied at the Academy of Fine A ...
, Carl Max Schultheiss
Carl Max Schultheiss (1885 in Nuremberg – 1961 in New York City) was a German graphic designer, active since 1940 in the United States.
Carl Max Schultheiss studied at the former Royal School of Applied Arts in Nuremberg and at the Munich Acad ...
and Fritz Mackensen
Fritz Mackensen (born 8 April 1866 in Greene, near Kreiensen, Duchy of Brunswick – 12 May 1953 in Bremen) was a German painter of the Düsseldorf school of painting and Art Nouveau. He was a friend of Otto Modersohn and Hans am Ende, an ...
), but also upon the development of the entire Munich School, leading it to a more coloristic approach.
Major works
All in theNational Gallery (Berlin)
The National Gallery (german: Nationalgalerie) in Berlin, Germany, is a museum for art of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. It is part of the Berlin State Museums. From the Alte Nationalgalerie, which was built for it and opened in 1876, its exh ...
* ''Waldfest'', (Forest Festival)
* ''Totes Reh'', (Dead Deer)
* ''Sankt Georg der Drachentöter'', (Study for Saint George, the Dragonslayer)
References
Further reading
* Stefanie Kamm: ''Wilhelm von Diez. 1839–1907. Ein Künstler zwischen Historismus und Jugendstil''. (Reihe Kunstgeschichte; Vol.43). München 1991,External links
Wilhelm von Diez in HeidICON
- Illustrations from the "Fliegenden Blättern" {{DEFAULTSORT:Diez Wilhelm von 1839 births 1907 deaths German illustrators People from Bayreuth 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters