Munich Gallery; 54 in Dresden Gallery; Repose in Egypt (1757), Entombment (1759), Squirrel, Camera Obscura, 2 Italian Views, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; others in Brussels, Brunswick, Cassel, Darmstadt, Bordeaux, and Milan Galleries. Left many etchings.—Allgem. d. Biogr., v. 192; Ch. Blanc, École allemande; Brockhaus, v. 336; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 559; Larousse, vi. 794; Meyer, Conv. Lex., v. 705.
DIETRICH, JOHANN FRIEDRICH,
born at Biberach, Sept. 21, 1787, died in
Stuttgart, Jan. 17, 1846. History painter;
first instructed in Stuttgart by the court
painters Heideloff and Seele, went in 1811 to
Munich, then to Rome, whence he returned
to Stuttgart in 1816. Two years after he
went again to Italy and was allied in Rome
to Cornelius, Overbeck, and Veit. After his
return in 1822 he executed a number of
decorative works for the court and was
made professor at the art-school in 1833.
He painted good portraits. Works: Christ
at Emmaus (1816), Stuttgart Gallery; Abraham's
Entry into the Promised Land (1823),
Royal Palace, Stuttgart; St. Martin's Dream
(1834); Resurrection (1840), Catholic church,
Stuttgart; Nativity (1843); Christ on Mount
of Olives (1845). Frescos: Scenes from
Myth of Bacchus (1826-28), Villa Rosenstein,
near Stuttgart; Visitation, Nativity,
Adoration of Magi, Christ on Mount of
Olives, Crucifixion, Entombment, Resurrection
(1838-39).—Allgem. d. Biogr., v. 156;
Larousse, vi. 795; Raczynski, ii. 478.
DIETRICHSON, MATHILDE (née Bonneir),
born in Christiania, July 12, 1837.
Genre painter; studied first in Christiania,
then in Düsseldorf (1857-61) under Mengelberg
and Tidemand. In 1862 she married
the art historian Dietrichson, and visited with
him Germany, where she studied in Berlin
under Julius Schräder; spent three years in
Italy; settled in 1866 at Upsala, where she
won several medals; visited, in 1869, Greece,
Turkey, Italy, and France, and studied in
Paris under Chaplin, then in Munich (1875-77)
under Defregger. Works: Old Man
smoking (1868); Young Mother's Visit at
Home (1869); Italian Family Scene (1870);
Educated Maid (1872); Master's Daughter
(1873).—Müller, 137.
DIETTERLEIN, WENDEL, born in
Strasburg in 1550, died there in 1599. German
school; history painter, mostly in
fresco; enjoyed great reputation in his time,
and is said to have been the first to make
use of pastel. The Dresden Academy has
176 original drawings by him. Works:
Calling of St. Matthew, Vienna Museum;
do., Amalien-Stift, Dessau; Christ with
Martha and Mary, Prague Gallery.—Woltmann,
Deutsche Kunst in Elsass, 314; Ménard,
L'Art en Alsace, 80; Nagler, Mon., v.
322.
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DIETZ, FEODOR, born at Neunstetten,
Baden, May 29, 1813,
died at Gray, Haute-Saône,
France, Dec.
18, 1870. History
and battle painter,
pupil in Carlsruhe of
Kuntz, then from
1833 at the Munich
Academy under Philipp
Foltz; adopted,
during a three years'
sojourn in Paris, the style of Horace Vernet,
under whom and Alaux he studied,
and returned in 1839 to Carlsruhe, whence
he moved to Munich in 1843; took part
in the campaign in Schleswig-Holstein, in
1848-49, and was made professor of the art-*school
in Carlsruhe in 1862. He accompanied
the German army in 1870 to France,
where he died suddenly of paralysis of the
heart. Works: Death of Max Piccolomini
(1835), Carlsruhe Gallery; Death of Pappenheim;
Gustavus Adolphus at Lützen (1838);
Margrave Ludwig of Baden's Victory over
the Turks (1837); Baden Regiment at
