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 Paintings of Hans Thoma :. | Madchen beim Hunerfuttern | Marsh on the Rhine | Self portrait with Love and Death | Adam and Eve | Self-Portrait before a Birch Wood |
Related Artists:
Manuel Dias de Oliveira
(1764 - 1837)
Pieter van Dyke
painted Portrait of Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1795
MASTER of the St. Bartholomew Altar
German painter active 1470-1510 in Cologne