Johann Jakob Dorner the Younger

Johann Jakob Dorner the Younger ( * July 7, 1775 in Munich, † December 4, 1852 ) was a German landscape painter and printmaker. He was the son of Johann Jakob Dorner the Elder.

Life and work

Dorner trained by his father draw and first created etchings. In 1803 he recorded two lithographs, "Remembrance Monuments in Abbach and Hall", which are among the earliest artistic works in this new technology. In the same year he was conservator at the predecessor of the Alte Pinakothek, the Hofgarten Galerie, whose gallery inspector he was appointed in 1808. In 1820, he fell ill with the eyes and was repeatedly successful surgery. In 1824 he was made an honorary member of the Academy.

His work is divided into three periods: Up to the eye surgeries, the 1820s, although as of 1829 begins, which is characterized as "decline " and finally a third " without highlights " after a stroke on 8 October 1843.

Dorner traveled extensively Bavaria, Upper Bavaria in particular, where he sketched extensively and watercolors created, which served him as models for his landscape paintings. In this technique, it is characterized by the Friends to Johann Georg von Dillis. While the sketches and studies provide a fresh impression of nature, landscape paintings show Dorner's even stronger than Dillis circle the reception of Dutch painting of the 17th century.

" Johann Jakob Dorner D. J. belongs to the first generation of the Munich landscape painters, which has its most important representatives in Johann Georg Dillis [ ... ] and Wilhelm von Hess Peter [ ... ]. They all saw their role models in the old Dutch masters Jacob van Ruisdael and Allart van Everdingen. So they had as opposed to tradition-bound ideal landscape painting in imitation of Claude Lorrain also tried a realistic reproduction of nature to the destination and were at a realistic light situation. "

Larger holdings of his works are located in the Bavarian State Painting Collections and in National Print Munich.