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German artist and biographer (1755–1822)

Albert Christoph Dies (1755 – 28 December 1822) was a German painter, engraver, and biographer most noted for his biography of Joseph Haydn, although it is now considered sentimental and not entirely accurate.

As an artist, he is also not very well-regarded.

As painter

Dies was born in Hanover (baptized 11 February 1755),^[1] and began his studies there. For one year he studied in the academy of Düsseldorf, and then he started at the age of twenty with thirty ducats in his pocket for Rome,^[2] studying briefly on the way in Mannheim and Basel.

Haydn: two contemporary portraits.

Haydn: two contemporary portraits.

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Franz Joseph Haydn (March 31, – May 31, ) has been affectionately called “Papa” Haydn by many people since he lived nearly more than two centuries ago.

A life-long resident of Austria, Haydn spent much of his career as a court musician for the wealthy Hungarian aristocratic Esterházy family on their remote.

Haydn's friends, the painter Albert Christoph Dies.

In Rome he lived a frugal life till 1796; his son Johannes (Giovanni) was born there in 1776. Copying pictures, chiefly by Salvator Rosa, for a livelihood, his taste led him to draw and paint from nature in Tivoli, Albano and other picturesque places in the vicinity of Rome.

Naples, the birthplace of his favorite master, he visited more