THOMA, HANS (1839- )

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THOMA, HANS (1839- ) , German painter, was born at Bernau in the Black Forest. Having started life as a painter of

clock

CLOCK

-faces, he entered in, 1859 theCarlsruhe

academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

, where he studied under Schirmer and Des Coudres. He subsequently studied and worked, with but indifferent success, in Dusseldorf, Paris, Italy,

Munich

MUNICH (Ger. Munchen)

and Frankfort, until his reputation became firmly established as the result of an exhibition of some thirty of his paintings in

Munich

MUNICH (Ger. Munchen)

. 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

DISTRICT

, partly by his sympathy with the early German mastersparticularly with Altdorfer and Cranach. 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 colouring, he has distinct affinities with the pre-Raphaelites. Many of his pictures have found their way into two private collections in Liverpool. A portrait of the artist, and two subject pictures, " The Guardian of the Valley " and "

Spring

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)

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

EGYPT

," " Charon," " Pieta," "

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
cafe at Frankfort, and in the music room of Mr Pringsheimer's

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

in Munich.

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