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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:: 87987
Offenes Tal
c. 1872(1872)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 77 x 106 cm
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Painting ID:: 88167
Mainlandschaft
1875(1875)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 85 x 123 cm
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Painting ID:: 88512
Adam and Eve
1897(1897)
Medium English: Oil on Canvas
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Painting ID:: 89726
Rheinfall bei Schaffhausen
1876(1876)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 84 x 114 cm (33.1 x 44.9 in)
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Painting ID:: 93759
Im Sonnenschein
1867(1867)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 108 x 85 cm (42.5 x 33.5 in)
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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: | Alexander | Master Theodoric | Achille-Etna Michallon | Giovanni di Francesco | SOLARI, Andrea |
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