Franz Thiele

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Franz Thiele (born March 9, 1868 in Friedland in Bohemia ; † May 23, 1945 in Prague ) was a German painter who worked in Vienna and Prague.

Life

Thanks to the support of Count Clam-Gallas's family , Thiele studied painting from 1884 to 1892 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under August Eisenmenger , Franz Rumpler and Christian Griepenkerl . In 1892 he was awarded the Rome Prize and spent a year in Italy. He then visited Spain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. In 1902 he was appointed associate professor, in 1905 full professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague . From 1916 to 1917 he served as a volunteer and worked as a war painter on many fronts . In 1927 he married the painter Inge geb. Peschka (1903-1993). From 1896 to 1900 he was a member of the cooperative of the visual artists Vienna (Künstlerhaus) and 1900 to 1912 a member of the Hagenbund .

In 1938 Thiele retired. After the annexation of the Czech Republic in 1938, he created a propaganda picture depicting Hitler in front of a cheering crowd. After the war he was sent to an internment camp , where he died.

His works were mainly history paintings, landscape, genre and animal studies as well as portraits, but he was also active as a sculptor.

Honors

• 1886: Golden Füger Medal and the Lampi Prize of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna
• 1889: with the special school price for history painting
• 1892: Rome Prize (state travel grant)
• 1898: Archduke Carl Ludwig Medal and the Small Golden State Medal
• 1906: Knight's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order
• 1906: Order of the Iron Crown III. class
• 1906: Knight of the Russian Order of St. Anne III. class
• 1918: Awarded the title of Hofrat

literature

• Thiele, Franz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 33 : Theodotos vacation . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1939.

Web links

Commons : Franz Thiele  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Thiele Franz. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 14, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2012–,ISBN 978-3-7001-7312-0, p. 296 f. (Direct links on p. 296 , p. 297 ).
• Franz Thiele (Austrian, 1868–1945). at artnet

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Inge Thiele at the vivomondi portal .
2. ↑ Awarding of prizes. In:  Prager Abendblatt. Supplement to the Prager Zeitung / Prager Abendblatt , July 19, 1886, p. 2 (online at ANNO ).
3. ↑ Awarding of prizes. In:  Prager Abendblatt. Supplement to the Prager Zeitung / Prager Abendblatt , July 22, 1889, p. 2 (online at ANNO ).
4. ↑ Awarding of prizes. In:  Prager Abendblatt. Supplement to the Prager Zeitung / Prager Abendblatt , July 25, 1892, p. 2 (online at ANNO ).
5. ↑ The highest honors on the occasion of the last trip of the Emperor's Majesty to Bohemia. In:  Prager Abendblatt. Supplement to the Prager Zeitung / Prager Abendblatt , November 21, 1906, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).
6. ^ The awards for the German-Bohemian Exhibition (Reichenberg). In:  Prager Tagblatt , November 21, 1906, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).
7. ↑ Awarding of the title. In:  Pilsner Tagblatt / Pilsner Tagblatt. West Bohemian Daily Newspaper / West Bohemian Daily Newspaper / West Bohemian Daily Newspaper. Pilsner Tagblatt , May 29, 1918, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).