In 1905-12 he was an external student of St. Petersburg. OH (graduated in 1912). Since 1902 participated in exhibitions. Many of the works were created in a creative Alliance with Vladimir Kozlov. Taught at the higher school of industrial art (1944-46), 1944 Professor. Monumental sculpture (including the project of the monument "the Great Builder", 1919; a monument to K. Liebknecht and R. Luxemburg, 1920, together. with Vladimir Kozlov, a monument Ordzhonikidze, 1949), easel production. (including "Salome", 1912; "Son", 1916; "the Mistress and her slave", 1917), tombstones.
Born 8 Dec 1877 in Warsaw. The artist's son. In 1904 he arrived in Ekaterinodar Kuban region. In 1905-1912, he was a volunteer at the sculpture Department of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts as a scholar of the city Council of Ekaterinodar. In 1912, the sculpture of "Salome" was the title of a free artist. The Academy met for many years and has created a creative Alliance with a younger comrade Vladimir Kozlov who received the title of artist. Lived and worked in St. Petersburg. Sponsors have complied with masks, reliefs and other works of decorative sculpture for buildings in St. Petersburg, especially of the architect M. M. Peretyatkovich. Have jointly executed a number of award-winning projects of different monuments. By order of the Management of the CMS in 1913-1915 create a variety of decorative decoration of the mud baths in Pyatigorsk and Essentuki, and also decorative fence for the obelisk on the site of the duel Lermontov in Pyatigorsk. In 1919-1924 working on sculptural images of prominent revolutionaries and restoration of monuments of architecture in Petrograd. In subsequent years, Dietrich created a gallery of portraits of contemporaries, as well as major monuments: G. K. Ordzhonikidze, Ordzhonikidze (1949) and the Alisher Navoi in Tashkent. The sculptor died 20 Oct 1954 in Leningrad, and at last will was buried next to Vladimir Kozlov. (Kondakov)
