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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.



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