Alfred Thon

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Alfred Max Carl Oscar Thon (born May 9, 1886 in Breslau ; † January 30, 1952 in Braunschweig ) was a German painter, draftsman and art teacher.

Life

Alfred Thon was the son of an official working in the railway service, his grandparents were foresters in Thuringia. He attended high school in Berlin-Wilmersdorf and studied at the State Art School in Berlin . Eventually he passed the drawing teacher examination for high schools. He continued his studies with lectures on art history at the University of Berlin and at the Academic University of Fine Arts in Berlin-Charlottenburg .

After the candidate year, Thon at Spruce High School spent, he became in 1926 teacher . In 1929 he was appointed to the Pedagogical Academy in Erfurt and three years later to the Pedagogical Academy in Frankfurt am Main , where he taught as a professor of fine arts. In 1934 he moved to Weilburg with the transfer of the university . During the Second World War, Thon was transferred to Braunschweig and, as in Weilburg, taught art education and handicrafts at the local college for teacher training . In 1952 he died in Braunschweig.

Thon was a supporter of the Wandervogel movement and a member of the groups in Berlin-Steglitz and Wilmersdorf around Karl Fischer and Frank Fischer. He described his experiences in the autobiographical essay Birth and Youth of the Wandering Bird , which appeared in 1934 in the anthology Deutsche Jugend edited by Will Vesper .

Artistic work

Thon worked as a painter (oil paintings and watercolors, especially landscapes and interior painting ), draftsman, illustrator, silhouette artist and paper artist. From 1918 to 1939 he regularly exhibited his works in larger cities in Germany. From 1919 he published books that he illustrated every year. He was best known for the illustration of the anthology "Gesammelte Märchen" by Hans Christian Andersen .

Works

  • Collected fairy tales with watercolors by Alfred Thon , Axel Juncker Verlag , 1919.
  • Landscape near Avignon (Frankfurt am Main, Städelsches Kunstinstitut , SG 1162), 1926, 193 × 280 mm, watercolor.
  • Oder landscape (Frankfurt am Main, Städelsches Kunstinstitut, SG 1163), 380 × 625 mm, watercolor.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ City Chronicle Braunschweig. Retrieved June 20, 2020 .
  2. a b c Alfred Thon. In: Hinrich Jantzen: names and works: biographies and contributions to the sociology of the youth movement. Volume 5. dipa, Frankfurt am Main 1982.
  3. ^ Alfred Thon: Birth and Youth of the Wandering Bird. In: Will Vesper (Ed.): German youth. 30 years of history of a movement. Holle, Berlin 1934, pp. 9-22.
  4. Thon, Alfred . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 441 .
  5. a b H. C Andersen, Alfred Thon: Collected fairy tales . Juncker, Berlin 1919 ( worldcat.org [accessed June 20, 2020]).
  6. ^ Landscape near Avignon. Retrieved June 20, 2020 .
  7. Oder landscape. Retrieved June 20, 2020 .