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Johann Georg von Dillis

A Royal Party Admiring the Sunset atop the Hesselberg Mountain, 1801

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Medium

watercolor, gouache, and pen and gray ink over graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 42.8 x 37.1 cm (16 7/8 x 14 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Ladislaus and Beatrix von Hoffmann

Accession Number

2007.111.8

Artists / Makers

Johann Georg von Dillis (artist) German, 1759 - 1841

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Inscription

signed and dated at bottom right in black ink: G. Dillis fecit/1801; dated on original backing cardboard: den 23. May 1801

Provenance

(sale, Hugo Ruef, Munich, 23 November 1972, no cat.). Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Stiftung Ratjen

Exhibition History

1976: William Turner und die Landschaft seiner Zeit. Kunsthalle, Hamburg, 1976, 320, no. 332.

1979: Münchner Landschaftsmalerei 1800 - 1850, Lenbachhaus, Munich, 1979, 71, 231, no. 83.

1991: Johann Georg Dillis 1759 - 1841, Landschaft und Menschenbild, Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Albertinum, Dresden, 1991 - 1992, frontispiece, 148, 152, 154, no. 56.

2008: L'Age d'or du romantisme allemand: Aquarelles et dessins à l'époque de Goethe, Musée de la Vie romantique, Paris, 2008, no. 16

2010: German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010, 19, 34, 38, 137, 138, 140,142-143, 149, 150, 232, no. 45 (entry by Hinrich Sieveking).

Bibliography

1972: "Ans der Auktion bei Hugo Ruef, München, 22. - 25. November 1972." Weltkunst, vol. 22 (Nov. 15, 1972): 1750-1751, 1753 (ill.).

1972: "Hugo Ruef, München, 22. - 25. November 1972." Weltkunst, vol. 24 (December 15, 1972): 1902.

1974: Bernhard, Marianne. Deutsche Romantik. Handzeichnungen. Munich, 1974: vol. 1, 187, detail on dust jacket.

1977: Ebertshäuser, Heidi and Petra Kipphoff. Die Schönsten Zeichnungen der Deutschen Romantik. Munich, 1977: 65, detail on dust jacket.

1985: Gabler, August. "Der Maler v. Dillis auf dem Hesselberg." Alt Dinkelsbühl: Mitteilungen aus der Geschichte Dinkelsbühls und seiner Umgebung, vol. 61, no. 4 (September 1985): 26.

1985: Gabler, August. "Drei Maler der romantik um und in Dinkelsbühl." Alt Dinkelsbühl: Mitteilungen aus der Geschichte Dinkelsbühls und seiner Umgebung, vol. 61, no. 2 (April 1985): 10-11.

1989: Johann Georg von Dillis 1759 - 1841. Zeichnungen und Aquarelle aus den Sammlungen des Historischen Vereins von Oberbayern im Stadtarchiv München, Munich, 1989, 62, under no. 20, 76, under no. 36.

1992: Krätz, Otto. Goethe und die Naturwissenschaften. Munich, 1992: 56-57.

1992: Moore, Susan. "Dillis: An Unexpected Journey." Financial Times, January 17, 1992, ill.

1998: Sieveking, Hinrich. Fuseli to Menzel: Drawings and Watercolors in the Age of Goethe from a German Private Collection. New York, 1998: 52, no. 8, nn. 1, 9.

2001: Lachenmann, David. "Wolfgang Ratjen as Collector." Master Drawings 39 (2001): 110, 113, n. 13, back cover (ill.).

2010: Robison, Andrew. "German Drawings for the National Gallery of Art: The Wolfgang Ratjen Collection." NGA Bulletin, Spring 2010: 13, 15, fig. 17.

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