Woman Bathing in a Landscape - Dietrich - lithograph

Author: Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich (1712~1774) Name: [Woman Bathing in the Landscape] Signed: Dietricy feci 1744. Technique: Etching. Year: 1744. Size: 9.3 x 13.8 (picture). 21 x 29.5 cm (with frame). Remarks: Including double-layer cardboard mounting + old ebony frame No.: P K-054 Introduction of works: Among the German artists of the eighteenth century, Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich (1712~1774) was not an original one, however, his artistic career was smooth sailing. His father was a court painter, his mother was the daughter of a court painter, and his two sisters later became painters, as can be seen in the hereditary tradition of the profession at that time. In 1724, after arriving in Dresden from Weimar, he studied with the landscape painter Johann Alexander Thiele (1685 – 1752). At the age of eighteen, the Holy Roman Elector of Saxony and King Auguste II of Poland (Friedrich August I der Starke, 1670-1733) noticed the artist's talent and began to sponsor him, allowing him to travel around Italy with cities all over the Netherlands. Dietrich was thus able to get close to the works of the past masters and copied many works with his outstanding talent. In 1741, August III. von Polen (1696 – 1763) appointed him as court painter, and he has flourished ever since. His work was sold all over Europe and he was awarded the Academy Medals of Augsburg, Bologna and Copenhagen. In 1764, he became the principal of the School of Painting at the Maison Ceramics and Kilns, and a year later he was also a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden. Dietrich has solid skills and is proficient in various subjects. He also understands the Dutch and Italian schools of painting, and can also master the Rococo style that was popular at the time. He analyzes Rembrandt's works in depth, and from a stylistic point of view, it is even difficult to distinguish the authenticity from the fake. He was most admired at the time for his landscape etchings, and was even called the "Raphael of landscape painting" by the well-known art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717~1768). He further influenced later generations, represented by his student Johann Christian Klengel (1751 ~ 1824). From about one hundred and eighty prints handed down today, it can be found that the subject matter that Dietrich can master is very diverse, ranging from biblical images, myths and fables, landscapes, animals, heraldry, book flower decoration illustrations, portraits, customs themes etc. The most prominent of these are his landscapes, in the style of the Dutch and Italian masters of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. This "Woman Bathing in the Landscape" is his mature etching work. The lines are light and free. From the pond surrounded by the big rocks in the foreground to the distant mountains, the layers are clear and the trees are densely arranged. The dynamic of the naked woman contrasts with the static nature of nature. The picture still has a Baroque drama, but it has been integrated into the Rococo idyll that was gradually popular at that time. The composition of the landscape is reminiscent of seventeenth-century representations of Dutch landscape paintings, while seven women bathing in nature, like daffodils from Greek mythology, pose in various poses in Dietrich's pictorial etchings , but form a structure of rising slashes, injecting a flowing atmosphere into the picture. Although the scale of this work is small, it still contains the artist's delicate ingenuity. *If you have any details, please send a message to contact the designer *The main products of this design hall are Western antiques, old jewelry, and old European original prints. Old products will inevitably have traces of historical years, but they are cleverly placed according to personal tastes, and they can promote an extraordinary life. Taste and aesthetic concept. However, if you still mind, please consider carefully before placing an order.