Franz Thelen
Franz Thelen (* 1826 in Düsseldorf ; † after 1877) was a German portrait and genre painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Thelen studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1836 to 1847 . There were Rudolf Wiegmann , Karl Ferdinand Sohn and especially Wilhelm von Schadow his teachers. From 1850 to 1855 he was a member of the Düsseldorf artists' association Malkasten . From 1857 to 1877 he lived in Rome , where he joined the German Art Association. In 1862 Thelen took part in the London World Exhibition with other artists from this association .
Thelen created portraits and genre pictures, but also depictions of saints in the late Nazarene church style of the 19th century.
literature
- Thelen, Franz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 32 : Stephens – Theodotos . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1938.
Web links
- Thelen , sheet 1, website in the portal img.biblhertz.it ( Bibliotheca Hertziana )
- Thelen , sheet 2, website in the portal img.biblhertz.it (Bibliotheca Hertziana)
Individual evidence
- ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
- ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
- ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 592
- ^ Friedrich Noack: The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 1, p. 627
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thelen, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German portrait and genre painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1826 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1877 |