Dietrich worked mainly in Dresden where he was professor of the academy from 1764. He was known primarily as an imitator of 17th-century masters, and of Watteau, although he painted all types of pictures. He was a painter, etcher and decorator of porcelain.
Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich
1712 - 1774
Paintings by Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich
A pair of good-humoured and energetic musicians are visiting an inn – the sign hanging outside shows a jug and a pair of compasses. One plays a bagpipe, the other a fiddle. The picture is an example of an eighteenth-century German painter imitating a seventeenth-century Dutch artist; in this case...
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