
Jakob Fürchtegott Dielmann (9 September 1809,
Frankfurt
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- 30 May 1885, Frankfurt) was a German illustrator,
genre
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and landscape painter. He was also one of the co-founders of the Artists' Colony at
Kronberg
Kronberg im Taunus is a town in the Hochtaunuskreis district, Hesse, Germany and part of the Frankfurt Rhein-Main urban area. Before 1866, it was in the Duchy of Nassau; in that year the whole Duchy was absorbed into Prussia. Kronberg lies at ...
.
Life
He was the son of a gardener and began by studying lithography at the J. C. Vogelschen Lithographieanstalt in Frankfurt. From 1825 to 1827, he studied with at the
Städelschule
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. In 1835, he later attended the
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
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on a scholarship and studied with
Johann Wilhelm Schirmer
Johann Wilhelm Schirmer (5 September 1807 in Jülich – 11 September 1863 in Karlsruhe) was a German landscape artist born in Jülich, within the Prussian Duchy of Jülich.
Biography
Schirmer was started as a student of historical pain ...
.
He focused on genre art, but also painted
plein air
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style at the
Mittelrhein, the
Main
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and throughout
Hesse
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.
In 1841,
Gerhardt von Reutern
Gerhardt Wilhelm von Reutern (17 July 1794, Walk - 22 March 1865, Frankfurt) was a Baltic-German military officer and painter who co-founded the Artists' Colony at Willingshausen.
Life
He was born into a noble family of Baltic-Germans dating ...
invited him to visit the Artists' Colony in
Willingshausen
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, where he created scenes of village life. The following year, he opened a studio at the Städelschule and took further lessons with
Anton Burger
Anton "Toni" Burger (19 November 1911 – 25 December 1991) was a (Captain) in the German Nazi SS, in Greece (1944) and of Theresienstadt concentration camp.
Military career
Anton Burger was born in Neunkirchen, Austria, the son of a station ...
. In the early 1860s, he and Burger moved to Kronberg, where they founded their own artists' colony.
During the last ten years of his life, he suffered from an unspecified infirmity which hindered his ability to paint. Therefore, his oeuvre is not as extensive as it might be otherwise.
Work
*In addition to painting, he often worked as an illustrator, most notably for the four volumes of Robert Reinick's ''Lieder eines Malers mit Randzeichnungen seiner Freunde'': (1838
Vol.1) (1838
vol.2)(1839 and 1846)(1852)*His lithographs include those in: Adelheid von Stolterfoth: ''Rheinischer Sagenkreis. Ein Cyclus von Romanzen, Balladen und Legenden des Rheins.'' Jügel, Frankfurt (1835)
nbn-resolving.de (English: ''The Rhenish minstrel. A Series of Ballads, traditional and legendary, of the Rhinelands''
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(Digitalizations from the
University and State Library Düsseldorf
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)
References
Further reading
* Museumsgesellschaft Kronberg im Taunus: ''Jakob Fürchtegott Dielmann – Gründer der Kronberger Malerkolonie'', W. Kramer, Frankfurt (1985)
External links
ArtNet: Four pages of paintings by Dielmannwith links to more painting, etc.
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1809 births
1885 deaths
Landscape painters
Burials at Frankfurt Main Cemetery
19th-century German painters
19th-century German male artists
German male painters