Johann Friedrich Dryander

Johann Friedrich Dryander ( born April 23 1756 in St. John, now Saarbrücken, † March 12, 1812 ) was a German painter.

Life

Dryander was born in 1756 as the son of Johann Georg Posamentenmachers Dryander and his wife Catharina Margaretha. From 1772 to 1774 Dryander was like his contemporary Johann Heinrich Schmidt apprentice of the court painter Johann Jakob Samhammer. In 1774 he moved with his teacher to Darmstadt. From 1778 was Dryander traveling painter various farms in southern Hesse, before he became court painter in 1788 at the court of the Prince of Nassau -Saarbrücken in Saarbrücken. Dryander was court painter especially portraitist of high society at the court and painted next to Prince Ludwig and his family and the upper middle class of the city. In 1789 he married the 24-year old Catharina Elisabetha Zix. The marriage produced two daughters and one son.

When the Prince of Nassau -Saarbrücken had to flee in 1793 as a result of the French Revolution into exile, portrayed Dryander mainly French officers. In 1795 he came to Metz and there fell ill of typhus. 1798 and 1799 he lived in Frankfurt am Main, before he again settled in Saarbrücken.

His works are now in the Musée historique Lorrain in Nancy, the Musée des Beaux -Arts in Rouen, in the Saarland Museum in Saarbrücken and at the Musée de la Révolution française in Castle Vizille.