Johann Christoph Dietzsch was a German draftsman , engraver and painter.
Johann Christoph Dietzsch was born on March 9, 1710 as a descendant of a Nuremberg artist family. Also the father Johann Israel Dietzsch (1681–1755), the siblings Barbara Regina Dietzsch (1706–1783), Georg Friedrich Dietzsch (1717–1755), Johann Albert Dietzsch (1720–1784), Johann Jakob Dietzsch (1713–1786), Johann Sigmund Dietzsch (1707–1775) and Margaretha Barbara Dietzsch (1726–1795) worked as draftsmen, engravers and painters in Nuremberg. The Dietzsch family was resident and did not leave Nuremberg even with good offers. Between 1730 and his death in 1769 Dietzsch made drawings, watercolors, copperplate engravings and paintings with opaque colors. He mainly depicted landscapes with rural staffage . In December 1769 Johann Christoph Dietzsch died in Nuremberg.
Johann Christoph Dietzsch published several series of copper engravings, including a series with six large landscape etchings from Knorr, a series with 41 smaller sheets that he edited with the help of his brother Johann Albrecht, eleven sheets depicting the city of Nuremberg and thirty sheets with artist portraits. As a watercolorist and opaque paint painter, Johann Christoph Dietzsch made flower and genre pieces in the Dutch style. Maria Catharina Prestel engraved a series of six sheets with depictions of landscapes after him.
The work of Johann Christoph Dietzsch was respected and coveted in his time. Johann Christoph Dietzsch owned a cabinet of natural objects and curiosities that was well known in his time .