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DIES, CHRISTOPH ALBERT (1755-1822)
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See also:DIES, CHRISTOPH See also:ALBERT (1755-1822) , See also:German painter, was See also:born at See also:Hanover, and learned the rudiments of See also:art in his native See also:place. For one See also:year he studied in the See also:academy of See also:Dusseldorf, and then he started at the See also:age of twenty with See also:thirty ducats in his See also:pocket for See also:Rome. There he lived a frugal See also:life till 1796. Copying pictures, chiefly by Salvator See also:Rosa, for a livelihood, his See also:taste led him to draw and paint from nature in See also:Tivoli, Albano and other picturesque places in. the vicinity of Rome. See also:Naples, the birthplace of his favourite See also:master, he visited more than once `or the same reasons. In this way he became a bold executant in See also:water-See also:colours and in oil, though he failed to acquire any originality of his own. See also:Lord See also:Bristol, who encouraged him as a copyist, predicted that he would be a second Salvator Rosa. But Dies was not of the See also:wood which makes See also:original artists. Besides other disqualifications, he had necessities which forced him to give up the See also:great career of an See also:independent painter. See also:David, then composing his See also:Horatii at Rome, wished to take him to See also:Paris. But Dies had reasons for not accepting the offer. He was courting a See also:young See also:Roman whom he subsequently married. Meanwhile he had made the acquaintance of Volpato, for whom he executed numerous drawings, and this no doubt suggested the See also:plan, which he afterwards carried out, of See also:publishing, in See also:partnership with Mechan, Reinhardt and Frauenholz, the See also:series of plates known as the Collection de vues pittoresques de l'Italie, published in seventy-two sheets at See also:Nuremberg in 1799. With so many irons in the See also:fire Dies naturally lost the See also:power of concentration. Other causes combined to affect his See also:talent. In 1787 he swallowed by See also:mistake three-quarters of an See also:ounce of See also:sugar of See also:lead. His. recovery from this See also:poison was slow and incomplete. He settled at See also:Vienna, and lived there on the produce of his See also:brush as a landscape painter, and on that of his See also:pencil or graver as a draughtsman and etcher. But instead of getting better, his See also:condition became worse, and he even lost the use of one of his hands. In this condition he turned from See also:painting to See also:music, and spent his leisure See also:hours in the pleasures of authorship. He did not See also:long survive, dying at Vienna in 1822, after long years of chronic suffering. From two pictures now in the See also:Belvedere See also:gallery, and from numerous engraved drawings from the neighbourhood of Tivoli, we gather that Dies was never destined to rise above a respectable mediocrity. He followed Salvator Rosa's example in imitating the manner of See also:Claude See also:Lorraine. But Salvator adapted the See also:style of Claude, whilst Dies did no more than copy it. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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