Cella Thoma

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Bonicella (Cella) Thoma b. Berteneder (born April 14, 1858 in Munich , † November 23, 1901 in Konstanz ) was a painter and wife of the painter Hans Thoma .

Life

Cella as a model for the picture Flower Girl, 1871, by Victor Müller

Cella Thoma came from a family of farmers and craftsmen and had been a model for the painter Victor Müller in his Munich studio since 1869 . There she met Hans Thoma; she soon became his model and, a year later, a painting student. On June 19, 1877 she married Thoma in Säckingen and moved into an apartment with him and his sister Agathe in Frankfurt / Main. Since the marriage remained childless and Cella was worried about her niece Ella, she was adopted by both in 1878. The four of them moved to Kronberg im Taunus in 1899 , where Thoma became a member of the local painters' colony . When Thoma received a call to Karlsruhe in 1901, the apartment was given up. Cella lived only a short time in Karlsruhe, as she succumbed to the consequences of appendicitis during a trip in Constance that year.

Hans Thoma, woman with child in a hammock, 1896 (Cella Thoma with niece / adopted daughter Ella; the motif is older than the picture)

Cella devoted herself to art even after her marriage and was known as a flower and still life painter.

Works (selection)

  • Blossom branches in the handle basket
  • Rose still life
  • Anemones

literature

  • Christa von Helmolt: Hans Thoma. Spiegelbilder, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-608-76261-2 .
  • August Wiederspahn, Helmut Bode: The Kronberg painter colony. A contribution to Frankfurt art history in the 19th century. Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-7829-0183-5 .

Individual proof

  1. ↑ (see below :) Helmolt, Hans Thoma, p. 106.
personal data
SURNAME Thoma, Cella
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berteneder, Cella
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1901
Place of death Constancy