Johann Georg von Dillis
Johann Georg von Dillis (26 December 1759 – 28 September 1841) was a German painter.
Biography
He was born in Gmain near
He continued in a
He studied the work of Simon Denis and Joseph Mallord William Turner, and encountered Washington Allston. The next year, in Paris, he saw oil sketches by Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld, and with Ludwig, the crown prince visited the Musée Napoleon; he would later advise the prince on collecting and other matters artistic, remaining in this capacity for the rest of his life. He also made several trips to Italy to purchase art for the royal collection.
In 1816 he was made responsible for packing and returning to Munich from Paris art stolen from Bavaria by Napoleon. In the fall of 1817 he and Ludwig traveled to Sicily before spending four months in Rome. Dillis helped to shape the collections of the Alte Pinakothek, which opened in 1836. He died in Munich in 1841.
See also
References
- Philip Conisbee, Sarah Faunce, and Jeremy Strick. In the Light of Italy: Corot and Early Open-Air Painting. New Haven; Yale University Press, 1996.
- Matthew Bargraves / Rachel Sloan: "A Dialogue with Nature - Romantic Landscapes from Britain and Germany". The Courtauld Gallery / The Morgan Library & Museum; London / New York, 2014.
External links
- German masters of the nineteenth century: paintings and drawings from the Federal Republic of Germany, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Johann Georg von Dillis (no. 22)
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