Background
Morris and his twin brother Leonard were born in America to Frederick and Margaret Dietsch (maiden name unknown) after they emigrated with other children of theirs from Germany in 1836.
Morris and his twin brother Leonard were born in America to Frederick and Margaret Dietsch (maiden name unknown) after they emigrated with other children of theirs from Germany in 1836.
Studied painting at New York School of Art, under William M.
Correspondence from Dietsch is included in the papers of William Henry Rinehart. He was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Rome in 1909. He lived in Rome from November
1906-1910.
Continuing to travel, he sailed back to New York from Naples upon the Rated Maximum Sinusoidal Saxonia (1899) on October 6, 1912. He had a passport obtained from Berne, Switzerland on August 1, 1914. He was awarded honorable mention for exhibitions at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915.
He registered for the draft for World War I in New York on September 12, 1918, with the registrar describing him as tall in height and slender of build, with brown eyes and dark brown hair.
Shortly thereafter on October 24, 1918, he embarked upon the Steamship Espagne (Provence, 1909) en route to France to assist Winifred Holt as an instructor for soldiers blinded in battle, with the passport clerk describing him as 6 feet tall with a small scar on the palm of his left hand.
In addition to New York City, Dietsch lived in Connecticut for a time (as his father had a home in Saybrook) and as of 1935 was living in Palm Beach, Florida, where he died in 1961. Dietsch studied at the New York School of Art under William Merritt Chase and was also a student of Attilio Piccirilli.
Since 1968, The National Sculpture Society, of which he was also a member, has awarded the C. Percival Dietsch Prize for sculpture in the round in his honor at its annual exhibition.
A piece by Dietsch entitled "Nude Female" was sold at Sotheby"s on March 11, 2004.
Served as aid to Mission Winifred Holt, president Comite Franco-American pour les Aveugles de la Guerre (committee for Men Blinded in Battle). Member National Sculpture Society, Architectural League of New New York Member Norton Gallery.
Clubs: Everglades, Palm Beach.