Johann Friedrich Dietler

Johann Friedrich Dietler ( born February 4, 1804 in Solothurn, † May 4, 1874 in Bern ), hometown entitled in Solothurn, was a Swiss painter and draftsman.

Dietler continued their education in Paris at Charles Germann in Solothurn and from 1822 under Antoine -Jean Gros. In 1833 he returned to Solothurn. The Winter 1834/35 he spent in Venice, where he was taken in the studio of Léopold Robert. He settled in 1836 in Bern down and there was soon inundated with portrait jobs. In the patrician families of Bern, Solothurn, Freiburg and Basel, his portraits were most in demand. In 1841 he married Nancy Schurer from Solothurn. For many years he taught at the Bern School of Art; were among his students Ernst Stückelberg Friedrich Walthard. Concerns that emerging photography would make him unemployed, were unfounded. Dietler used in later years, often photography as a tool, could displace the small-format photos, the bourgeois representative oil painting or watercolor for the time being not.

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Antoine-Jean Gros Museum of Fine Arts Berne Integrated Authority File
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