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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:: 97345
Falls of Saint Anthony
1847(1847)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 68.6 X 82.5 cm
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Painting ID:: 97432
Die Burgruine Hohenbaden
1889(1889)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 70 X 90.5 cm
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Painting ID:: 97524
Huhnerfutterung
1867(1867)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 104.5 x 62 cm
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Painting ID:: 97525
Der Bienenfreund
1863(1863)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 62.5 x 50.5 cm
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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: | Frederick Goodall | PIOLA, Domenico | ulrika eleonora | antonin dvorak | Pars, William |
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