Carl Friedrich Deiker
Dramatic Düsseldorf hunting and animal painter
Carl Friedrich Deiker, son of drawing teacher Christian Friedrich Deiker, became a student at the State Drawing Academy in Hanau and began under the Director Theodore Pelissier (1794-1863) his artistic studies, he continued his studies at the Baden Grand Ducal Art School in 1858 with the landscape painter Johann Wilhelm Schirmer in Karlsruhe. Deiker also received lessons and inspiration from his brother Johannes Deiker. Like his brother, Carl Friedrich Deiker specialized in depicting animal and hunting motifs. From 1864 until his death he lived in Düsseldorf. He liked to paint big game and wild boar and liked to portray deer fights, fleeing big game. Due to his dramatic descriptions of the hunt and his connection to the painting of the Rubens School , he is considered an important source of inspiration for animal painting at the Düsseldorf School.
Relationship Network
Master student
- Johann Wilhelm Schirmer Master
- Adam Friedrich Oeser Master
- Friedrich Eugen Peipers Master
- Jakob Fürchtegott Dielmann Master
- Maximilian Haushofer Master
- Philipp Rumpf Master
Fellow student
Influenced by
Artworks by this artist (24 total)
- A Dominant Stag
- Platzhirsch
- Hound tracking down a wild boar 1888
- A Buck and a Doe
- Röhrender Rothirsch
- Rotwildrudel
- St. Bernard in an Alpine Landscape 1860 - 1892
- Kapitaler Hirsch mit Tieren
- Hasen
- Stags in the Snow
- Die Rivalen
- Röhrender Hirsch mit Hirschkühen
- Rotwild in der Morgendämmerung
- Die Rivalen 2
- Rotwild in der Abenddämmerung
- Hound catching a royal stag 1889
- A Bellowing Stag
- Der kapitale Hirsch
- Herd of Red Deer
- A Successful Hunt