Dietrich Wilhelm Lindau
German genre and landscape painter
Dietrich Wilhelm Lindau was a German genre and landscape painter and draftsman. He first studied at the Dresden Art Academy with Ferdinand Hartmann and was supported by him. In 1821 he went to Rome on a Saxon scholarship with other German painters (including Carl Götzloff , Carl Georg Schumacher and Anton Josef Dräger ), where he died at the age of 63. He was a co-founder of the Ponte Molle Society in Rome, the forerunner of the German Art Association of 1845. He never returned to his homeland, although he had been offered a teaching position at the Dresden Academy.
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Artworks by this artist (6 total)
- A Saltarello Being Danced In A Roman Osteria 1827
- Driving cattle before the Porta San Paolo and Pyramid of Cestius, Rome
- A Group of Roman Bandits with Their Families and Companions after a Robbery 1824
- Peasants At Monte Mario On Their Way To Rome 1826
- Portrait Of Thorvaldsen C. 1827
- The Three Graces