Wilhelm von Diez

Albrecht Christoph Wilhelm von Diez ( born January 17, 1839 in Bayreuth, † February 25, 1907 in Munich) was a German painter and illustrator of the Munich school.

Life

He attended trade school in Bayreuth, 1853-1855, the Polytechnic School in Munich, and in 1855 the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he was four weeks student of Karl Theodor von Piloty. However, he left the academy after a short time and again taught himself further as a draftsman and painter.

Diez was first known by numerous works in the Flying Scroll and the Munich picture sheet. In 1871 he illustrated Schiller's History of the Thirty Years War. His drawings are characterized by a mild stroke in the form of etchings and open, clear treatment of the shadow. Later, he also emerged by genre painting, animal paintings and landscape painting.

In January 1871 Diez teacher was on the run by Wilhelm von Kaulbach Munich Art Academy and soon a professor there. In this position, he exercised a decisive influence not only on numerous pupils ( including Franz Marc, Max Slevogt, Wilhelm Trübner, Ludwig von Löfftz, Heinrich Lefler, Hans and Fritz Mackensen Gyenis ), but also to the development of the whole school in Munich in the direction of colorism from. Diez was not about to paint a single scene because of their outer appearance, as in the Munich school until then prevailing historical painting it did; he led the viewer rather in its smallest images a piece of cultural history before.

At the Munich International Exhibition of 1883 he was awarded for an Adoration of the Shepherds "Grand Gold Medal ".

Works

• Forest Festival ( the Rococo period ), National Gallery, Berlin
• Dead deer, Nationalgalerie Berlin
• Saint George the dragon slayer (Study ), National Gallery Berlin