FRÜHLING AUF DEM GEBIRGSSEE . Springtime on a Mountain Lake. Portrait of a youthful man (= personification of Spring) standing tall on a large half submerged fish. Printed by

Thoma, H.

Verlag: Jos. Scholz in Mainz 1898

Beschreibung

37 x 25 cm. Original full colour lithograph by Hans Thoma. Excellent condition. Published in the 'Jahresmappe' of the Gesellschaft für Vervielfältigende Kunst in Vienna for 1898. Hans Thoma was born on 2 October 1839 in Bernau in the Black Forest, Germany. He was the son of a miller and was trained in the basics of painting by a painter of clock faces. He entered the Karlsruhe academy in 1859, where he studied under Johann Wilhelm Schirmer and Ludwig des Coudres the latter of which had a major influence on his career. He subsequently studied and worked, with but indifferent success, in Düsseldorf, Paris, Italy, Munich and Frankfurt, until his reputation became firmly established as the result of an exhibition of some thirty of his paintings in Munich. He died in Karlsruhe in 1924 at the age of 85. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 30583

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Titel: FRÜHLING AUF DEM GEBIRGSSEE . Springtime on...

Verlag: Jos. Scholz in Mainz 1898

Zustand: Near Fine