Albert Christoph Dies

Albert Christoph Dies ( born February 11, 1755 in Hannover, † December 29, 1822 in Vienna ) was a German painter, etcher and biographer.

Life and work

This was born in 1755 in Hanover. He received no training as an artist in the traditional sense, but appropriated his creative way of self-taught. In 1775 he moved to Rome. He belonged to the German circle of artists at Jakob Philipp Hackert, Johann Christian Reinhart and Joseph Anton Koch were among this group. This honed his skills by copies of paintings by Hackert, besides also of Claude Lorrain. This produced commissioned works, mostly colorings of stitches on, even by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, to finance the stay. A total of four years, by Reinhart and Jacob Wilhelm Mechau, 1792-1796, a series of Mahle Rischen etched Prospecten was created. This consists of 72 individual etchings. They were moved to Nuremberg. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe mentions this "sent" in his Italian Journey as. In 1797 he moved again, this time to Vienna. There, he was hired by Prince Esterházy director of a gallery. 1810 published one of the first biographies of Haydn in the Came Sinai 's bookstore in Vienna, written by This, under the title Biographical news of Joseph Haydn. His health began to the end of life by strong, he died in 1822 in Vienna.

A watercolor from 1777 - is shown a way in Tivoli Gardens, a landscape on the back - is located in the Staatliche Museen Kassel. It has the format 30 × 48.6 cm and is from him "AC This a Tivoli 1777 " signed. The image is licensed under the inventory number AZ 2053 Seq. No. 5296 out.