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Hans Thoma
German Symbolist Painter, 1839-1924
German painter, printmaker and museum director. He was the son of a miller, craftsman and smallholder and studied briefly as a lithographer in Basle in 1854 before being apprenticed to a watchcase painter in Furtwangen. Returning home the same year, he started to draw and paint in his spare time. In 1859 he enrolled at the Kunstschule in Karlsruhe, where he studied until 1866 with Ludwig Des Coudres (1820-78) and the landscape painter Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, by whom he was especially influenced. He spent his summer vacations drawing and painting in Bernau, and his landscapes, portraits and genre pictures from this time record his transition from amateur painter to accomplished artist. His pictures of his mother and his sister Agathe
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Painting ID:: 23207
The Rhine Near Sackingen (nn02)
1873
Oil on canvas,25 x 40 3/8'' Staatliche Museen Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz Nationalgalerie,Berlin (west)
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Painting ID:: 27095
Self-Portrait before a Birch Wood
mk52
1890
Oil on canvas
94x75.5cm
Stadelsches Kunstinstitut,Frankfurt am Main
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Painting ID:: 29100
Adam and Eve
mk65
1897
Oil on canvas
43x31"
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Painting ID:: 38662
Marsh on the Rhine
mk138
1869
Oil on canvas
103x75cm
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Painting ID:: 38663
Summer
mk138
1872
Oil on canvas
76x104cm
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Hans Thoma
German Symbolist Painter, 1839-1924
German painter, printmaker and museum director. He was the son of a miller, craftsman and smallholder and studied briefly as a lithographer in Basle in 1854 before being apprenticed to a watchcase painter in Furtwangen. Returning home the same year, he started to draw and paint in his spare time. In 1859 he enrolled at the Kunstschule in Karlsruhe, where he studied until 1866 with Ludwig Des Coudres (1820-78) and the landscape painter Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, by whom he was especially influenced. He spent his summer vacations drawing and painting in Bernau, and his landscapes, portraits and genre pictures from this time record his transition from amateur painter to accomplished artist. His pictures of his mother and his sister Agathe
. Related Artists to Hans Thoma: | Lhermitte, Leon | Francis Swaine | Benozzo Gozzoli | Francesco Fracanzano | Marmaduke Cradock |
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