Ernst Dietrich
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Landscapes, Portraiture Art Work
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Ernst Dietrich |
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Male |
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Dresden, Germany |
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German |
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1712 |
| Death: |
1774 |
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Quick Facts
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Landscapes, Portraiture |
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Painting
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Biography
Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, a German painter, was born at Weimar, was quickly introduced to art by his father Johann Georg, then painter of miniatures to the court of the duke.
Having been sent to Dresden to perfect himself under Alexander Thiele, he finished a picture which attracted the attention of the king of Saxony. Augustus II was so pleased with Dietrich that he gave him means to study abroad.
He was more successful in aping the style of Rembrandt, and numerous examples of this habit may he found in the galleries of St. Petersburg, Vienna and Dresden. At Dresden, indeed, there are pictures acknowledged to be his, bearing the fictitious dates of 1636 and 1638, and the name of Rembrandt.
Dietrich tried every branch of art except portraits, painting Italian and Dutch views alternately with scripture scenes and still life. In 1741 he was appointed court painter to Augustus III at Dresden.
Dietrich, though popular and probably the busiest artist of his time, never produced anything of his own; and his imitations are necessarily inferior to the originals which he affected to copy. His best work is certainly that which he gave to engravings. Dietrich, after his return from the Peninsula, generally signed himself Dieterich, and with this signature most of his extant pictures are inscribed. He died at Dresden, after he had successively filled the important appointments of director of the school of painting at the Meissen porcelain factory and professor of the Dresden academy of arts. |
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