# Johann Georg Dillis artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:53:48.637Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1759-12-26
- Death date: 1841-09-28
- Nationality: German
- Movements: Munich School
- Common media: Painting, Drawing, Etching

## Portrait

![Johann Georg Dillis](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Liberat_Hundertpfund_-_Johann_Georg_von_Dillis_-_WAF_388_-_Bavarian_State_Painting_Collections.jpg)
Liberat Hundertpfund · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Liberat_Hundertpfund_-_Johann_Georg_von_Dillis_-_WAF_388_-_Bavarian_State_Painting_Collections.jpg

## About Johann Georg Dillis

Johann Georg Dillis, known after 1808 as Johann Georg von Dillis, was a German painter, draftsman, and etcher active around 1800. Born in 1759 and dying in Munich in 1841, he is associated in the collected sources with the Munich School. His work is especially linked to depictions of rural life and to sketches made while traveling, placing close observation and everyday experience at the center of his surviving artistic profile. Dillis also served as director of the royal galleries of Bavaria. In that institutional role, he contributed to Munich's development as a prominent artistic and picture-gallery center. Collectors may therefore encounter his name across several contexts: finished paintings, drawings and travel studies, etched works, and records concerning early nineteenth-century German art. The form “von Dillis” reflects his elevation to personal nobility in 1808, while authority records and catalogues may also preserve the shorter Johann Georg Dillis.

## Common works and media

Collected sources identify Dillis as a painter, draftsman, and etcher. They particularly associate him with depictions of rural life and sketches made during travel. Works encountered in appraisal or auction contexts may therefore include paintings, drawings and journey studies on paper, and etchings. The source pack does not document sculpture, ceramics, posters, or edition practices, so those categories should not be attributed to him without additional object-specific evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's input data associates Johann Georg Dillis with 214 auction records, but the collected public source pack does not expose the individual lots, sale dates, realized prices, condition reports, or provenance histories needed for a quantitative market conclusion. An appraisal should first establish whether an object is a painting, drawing or travel sketch, or etching. Its relationship to Dillis's documented subjects—particularly rural life and observations made during travel—also provides relevant context. Cataloguing must reconcile records filed under Johann Georg Dillis, Johann Georg von Dillis, and Georg von Dillis. Comparable public sales should be evaluated only after medium, date, subject, and attribution have been established for the specific object.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21403107
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500009659
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/24731765/
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_von_Dillis
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_von_Dillis
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_von_Dillis
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/johann-georg-dillis/