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THOMA, HANS (1839- )

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THOMA, HANS (1839- )

THOMA, HANS (1839- ) , See also:

German painter, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Bernau in the See also:

Black See also:

FOREST

Forest. Having started See also:

LIFE

life as a painter of See also:

CLOCK

clock-faces, he entered in, 1859 theCarlsruhe See also:

academy, where he studied under See also:

Schirmer and See also:

DES

Des Coudres. He subsequently studied and worked, with but indifferent success, in See also:

DUSSELDORF

Dusseldorf, See also:

Paris, See also:

Italy, See also:

MUNICH (Ger. Munchen)

Munich and See also:

FRANKFORT

Frankfort, until his reputation became firmly established as the result of an See also:

EXHIBITION

exhibition of some See also:

THIRTY

thirty of his paintings in Munich. In spite of his studies under various masters, his See also:

ART

art has little in See also:

COMMON

common with See also:

MODERN

modern ideas,. and is formed partly by his See also:

early impressions of the See also:

SIMPLE

simple idyllic life of his native See also:

DISTRICT

district, partly by his sympathy with the early German masters—particularly with See also:

ALTDORFER, ALBRECHT (? 1480–1538)

Altdorfer and See also:

CRANACH, LUCAS (1472-1553)

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

DRAWING

drawing of outline, and in his predilection for See also:

LOCAL

local colouring, he has distinct See also:

AFFINITIES

affinities with the pre-Raphaelites. Many of his pictures have found their way into two private collections in See also:

Liverpool. A portrait of the artist, and two subject pictures, " The See also:

GUARDIAN

Guardian of the Valley " and " See also:

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

Spring Idyll," are at the See also:

DRESDEN

Dresden See also:

GALLERY (through Ital. galleria, from Med. Lat. galeria, of which the origin is unknown)

Gallery; " See also:

EVE

Eve in See also:

PARADISE (Gr. lrap6BEwos)

Paradise " and " The Open Valley " at the Frankfort Museum. Other important pictures of his are " Paradise," " See also:

Christ and Nicodemus," " The See also:

FLIGHT

Flight into See also:

EGYPT

Egypt," " See also:

CHARON

Charon," " Pieta," " See also:

Adam and Eve," " Solitude," " Tritons," besides many landscapes and portraits. He has also produced numerous lithographs and See also:

PEN (Lat. penna, a feather, pen)

pen drawings, and some decorative mural paintings, notably, in a cafe at Frankfort, and in the See also:

MUSIC

music See also:

ROOM

room of Mr Pringsheimer's See also:

house in Munich.

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