Hans Thoma
Hans Thoma (2 October 1839 – 7 November 1924) was a German painter.
Biography[]
Hans Thoma was born on 2 October 1839 in Bernau[1] in the Black Forest, Germany.[citation needed] He was the son of a miller and was trained in the basics of painting by a painter of clock faces.[1] He entered the Karlsruhe academy in 1859, where he studied under Johann Wilhelm Schirmer and Ludwig des Coudres – the latter of which had a major influence on his career.[2] He subsequently studied and worked, with but indifferent success, in Düsseldorf, Paris, Italy, Munich and Frankfurt, until his reputation became firmly established as the result of an exhibition of some thirty of his paintings in Munich. He died in Karlsruhe in 1924 at the age of 85.
Style[]
In spite of his studies under various masters, his art has little in common with modern ideas, and is formed partly by his early impressions of the simple idyllic life of his native district, partly by his sympathy with the early German masters, particularly with Albrecht Altdorfer and Lucas Cranach the Elder. In his love of the details of nature, in his precise drawing of outline, and in his predilection for local coloring, he has distinct affinities with the Pre-Raphaelites.
Works[]
Many of his pictures have found their way into two private collections in Liverpool. A portrait of the artist and two subject pictures, The Guardian of the Valley and Spring Idyll are at the Galerie Neue Meister; Eve in Paradise and The Open Valley at the Städel. Other important pictures of his are Paradise, Christ and Nicodemus, The Flight into Egypt, Charon, Pietà, Adam and Eve, Solitude, Tritons, besides many landscapes and portraits.
He also produced numerous lithographs and pen drawings, and some decorative mural paintings, notably in a café at Frankfurt, and in the music room of the Alfred Pringsheim house in Munich.
Gallery[]
Still life with a hare, pheasants and a lobster
Diana under the tree
Kunstschriftsteller Conrad Fiedler
Hans Thoma - Summer
Die Berge von Carrara
Die Gralsburg
Landscape
Versuchung auf dem Berge
December
June
Self-Portrait VI with Flower
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Thoma, Hans". Benezit Dictionary of Artists. 31 October 2011. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00181989. ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
- ^ Ruhmer, Eberhard (2003). "Thoma, Hans". Grove Art Online. doi:10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T084604. ISBN 978-1-884446-05-4. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
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External links[]
- German masters of the nineteenth century: paintings and drawings from the Federal Republic of Germany, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Hans Thoma (nos. 91–95)
- 1839 births
- 1924 deaths
- People from Waldshut (district)
- People from the Grand Duchy of Baden
- 19th-century German painters
- 19th-century male artists
- German male painters
- 20th-century German painters
- 20th-century male artists
- Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class)