Hans Thoma was a German painter

Painting

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Biography

He was born in Bernau

Bernau im Schwarzwald

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 in the Black Forest

Black Forest

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, Germany

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. Having started life as a painter of clock-faces, he entered in 1859 the Karlsruhe academy, where he studied under Schirmer

Schirmer

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 and Des Coudres

Ludwig des Coudres

Ludwig des Coudres was a German historical, portrait, and genre painter.He was born at Cassel in 1820, and pursued his first studies under J. von Schnorr, at the Academy of Munich...

. He subsequently studied and worked, with but indifferent success, in Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf

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, Paris

Paris

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, Italy

Italy

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, Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

 and Frankfurt

Frankfurt

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, until his reputation became firmly established as the result of an exhibition of some thirty of his paintings in Munich. He died in Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe

The City of Karlsruhe is a city in the southwest of Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border.Karlsruhe was founded in 1715 as Karlsruhe Palace, when Germany was a series of principalities and city states...

 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 Altdorfer and Cranach

Lucas Cranach the Elder

Lucas Cranach the Elder , was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving...

. In his love of the details of nature, in his precise (though by no means faultless) 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

Liverpool

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. A portrait of the artist, and two subject pictures, “The Guardian of the Valley” and “Spring Idyll,” are at the Dresden Gallery; “Eve in Paradise ” and “The Open Valley” at the Frankfort Museum. 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 has also produced numerous lithographs and pen drawings, and some decorative mural paintings, notably in a café at Frankfurt

Frankfurt

Frankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010...

, and in the music room of the Pringsheimer house in Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

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