Carl Thiemann

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Bust of Carl Thiemann, sculptor Ulla Scholl
Carl Thiemann, painter and wood cutter, 1881–1966, relief on the town hall of Dachau, Bavaria, sculptor Ulla Scholl

Carl Theodor Thiemann (born November 10, 1881 in Karlsbad , Austria-Hungary , † December 3, 1966 in Deutenhofen ) was an old Austrian - German painter , lithographer , etcher and wood cutter .

Life

Thiemann House in Dachau
Carl Thiemann, painter and wood cutter, 1881–1966, grave, Waldfriedhof, Dachau, Bavaria

Carl Thiemann attended grammar school and business school in the spa town of Karlsbad. At the age of eight he lost his father, who left his mother with five underage children. Due to the family hardship, he had to learn the trade of a businessman and, according to his talent, could not attend the art academy. After ten years of successful commercial work, an influential art lover enabled the young man to study at the Prague Art Academy . At first he worked as a painter, then turned to the color woodcut , which at that time was cultivated as a new graphic technique by a small group of Austrian and German artists.

In 1908 Carl Thiemann, who had previously lived in Munich for a short time and there a. a. taught at the Debschitz School , with his school and painter friend Walther Klemm to Dachau . Shortly afterwards he married the language teacher Louise Miéville , who came from French-speaking Switzerland . The daughter Margarete emerged from the marriage and also became a painter.

In 1910 he became a member of the Vienna Secession and the German Association of Artists Weimar.

Carl Thiemann, who was a co-founder and long-time member of the board of directors of the Dachau Art Association , left behind an extensive work of great versatility, because he painted and drew in all techniques, knew and applied all graphic processes. Next to it is its simple but effective commercial graphics . His greatest and most lasting achievement, however, are his woodcuts, black and white and color.

Carl Thiemann's first marriage was to Louise Miéville, a language teacher from French-speaking Switzerland. The daughter Margarete Thiemann (1909–1950) came from this marriage. After several strokes of fate, the loss of his daughter and his wife (1878–1957), Carl Thiemann married his widowed cousin Ottilie Rady in 1959 . Thiemann-Stoedtner.

In Dachau the Carl-Thiemann-Anlage and in Vierkirchen in the district of Dachau a street commemorates the artist.

Honors

Works (selection)

  • At the Grunewald Lake (color woodcut 1906)
  • Am Krögel in Berlin (color woodcut 1906)
  • Winter streets in Dachau (color woodcut 1909)
  • Trees by the stream (color woodcut 1909)
  • The old Augustenfleder Strasse (oil 1910)
  • The magic of spring blossoms in the Dachau court garden (oil around 1910)
  • Evening in Venice (color woodcut 1910)
  • A bright sunny sky over the Dachau market (oil around 1910)
  • Winter in the Upper Market of Dachau (color woodcut 1913)
  • A mild May day (oil around 1915)
  • Abend am Moorbach (color woodcut 1917)
  • Light spring sky over the Dachauer Moos (oil around 1926)
  • On the high seas (color woodcut 1930)

literature

  • Carl Thiemann: Memories of a Dachau Painter , Dachau o. J.
  • Klaus Merx: Carl Thiemann 1881–1966. Master of Color Woodcut , Darmstadt 1976 (with catalog raisonné)
  • Ottilie Thiemann-Stoedtner: Carl Thiemann. The human being - the artist , Dachau 1978
  • Ottilie Thiemann-Stoedtner: Dachauer painter. The artists' place Dachau from 1801 to 1946 , Dachau 1981
  • Norbert Göttler: You made history in the Dachauer Land , Dachau 1989
  • Lorenz Josef Reitmeier: Dachau - The famous painter's place , Dachau o. J.
  • Walther Klemm and Carl Thiemann. Two masters of the color woodcut . Catalog Gemäldegalerie Dachau, Dachau 2016, ISBN 978-3-930941-85-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl Thiemann: Memories of a Dachau Painter, Dachau undated, p. 9
  2. ^ Ottilie Thiemann-Stoedtner: Dachauer painter. The artists' place Dachau from 1801 to 1946, Dachau 1981
personal data
SURNAME Thiemann, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thiemann, Carl Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Old Austrian-German painter, lithographer, etcher and wood cutter
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsbad , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 3rd December 1966
Place of death Deuthofen