Paul Thalheimer
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Paul Thalheimer was a German painter
and graphic designer
who was best known for his Christian motifs.
He studied art at the academies of Stuttgart and München, and settled down in München (1908) for most of his life. He was part of the Münchener Sezession
and was a leading figure, in addition to taking part in exhibitions.
After the First World War he found many projects in church restoration, making coloured woodcuts based on Old Testament topics. He was named Professor
in 1928 - and a degenerate artist
in 1937.
He is perhaps most famous for St. Karl's Church in Nürnberg. There he used a thin paint containing casein
to keep the structure of the stone in the walls, at the same time as allowing his figures to be identifiable.
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
and graphic designer
Graphic designer
A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, printed or electronic media, such as brochures and...
who was best known for his Christian motifs.
He studied art at the academies of Stuttgart and München, and settled down in München (1908) for most of his life. He was part of the Münchener Sezession
Sezession
Secession refers to a number of modernist artist groups that separated from the support of official academic art and its administrations in the late 19th and early 20th century....
and was a leading figure, in addition to taking part in exhibitions.
After the First World War he found many projects in church restoration, making coloured woodcuts based on Old Testament topics. He was named Professor
Professor
A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...
in 1928 - and a degenerate artist
Degenerate art
Degenerate art is the English translation of the German entartete Kunst, a term adopted by the Nazi regime in Germany to describe virtually all modern art. Such art was banned on the grounds that it was un-German or Jewish Bolshevist in nature, and those identified as degenerate artists were...
in 1937.
He is perhaps most famous for St. Karl's Church in Nürnberg. There he used a thin paint containing casein
Casein
Casein is the name for a family of related phosphoprotein proteins . These proteins are commonly found in mammalian milk, making up 80% of the proteins in cow milk and between 60% and 65% of the proteins in human milk....
to keep the structure of the stone in the walls, at the same time as allowing his figures to be identifiable.