Wilhelm von Diez (1839 - 1907)

Wilhelm von Diez

Albrecht Christoph Wilhelm von Diez was a German painter of the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He is known as a painter and illustrator, a representative of the Munich school.

Wilhelm von Diez became known for his illustrations for the satirical magazine Fliegende Blätter and his work on illustrations for Schiller's History of the Thirty Years' War. His drawings were characterized by light brushstrokes in the manner of etchings and a clear treatment of shadow. Later he was engaged in animalistic, landscape and genre painting. In 1871 von Diez became a lecturer at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts and in this position he had a great influence on the development of his pupils and on the Munich school of painting in general.