Friedrich Thomas (painter)

Friedrich Thomas (born March 7, 1806 in Aachen ; † June 7, 1879 there ) was a German painter of the 19th century .

Life

First, like his father, he had to learn to be a butcher. With the support of his mother, he was able to train as a painter with Johann Baptist Joseph Bastiné and then from 1826 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . A study trip to Italy followed. According to his sketchbook, Thomas “was in Foligno on July 30, 1829 and from March 1–3. October 1829 in Montefalco (13 km south of Foligno) ”. This sketchbook was a fragment of 36 sheets in 1897 and contained drawings based on works by Fra Angelico and Raffael ( School of Athens and Borgobrand ), Italian landscape and architectural sketches from Foligno, Montefalco, Rome and Ariccia as well as Roman "folk types".

On May 5, 1832, he married Gertrud Körfer in Aachen and worked as a portrait , history , landscape painter , etcher and drawing teacher. As the successor to Aegidius Johann Peter Joseph Scheuren , Thomas gave drawing lessons at the St. Leonhard Higher School for Daughters in Aachen for 30 years .

Thomas was one of the Aachen artists who took part in the first local painting exhibition in 1837. At the memorial exhibition in honor of Bastiné, he was represented with his self-portrait with his wife . In addition, his expertise in the field of copperplate engraving was not without significance.

Works

Dr. Joseph Armbruster Portrait of the Burtscheider Spa Doctor (1848)
Child portrait of Karl, Louise and Otto Schumacher (1853)
Self-Portrait at the Easel with Wife (1860). Suermondt Ludwig Museum (SLM).
Dr. med. Hermann Velten (born 1813 Ahrweiler, died 1869 Aachen, spa doctor Aachen) portrait. SLM
Johanna Velten , (born Fonck 1814 Cologne, died 1869 Wiesbaden, wife of the previous one) portrait. SLM.
Copies of Raphael's Madonna del Granduca and Madonna della Sedia (1897 in the Suermondt Museum, Aachen)
Director Kribben , portrait
St. Alfonso

Etchings

Thomas Sr. portrait
P. Hasslacher portrait
Reimann (Aachen's government president) portrait
Marienbild in the Münsterchor (front)
The Savior knocks for admission (Rev. Job. 3, 20)
Pieta
Ponttor in Aachen (1897 Suermondt Museum, Aachen)
St. Leonhard Monastery in Aachen (1897 Suermondt Museum, Aachen)

literature

Friedrich Thomas . In: J. Fey: On the history of Aachen painters of the 19th century. In: From Aachen's prehistory. Announcements from the association for customers of the Aachen prehistory . Tenth year 1897, No. 4/8.
Felix Kuetgens : Bastiné Memorial Exhibition. April 10 to May 31, 1927. Victor and Mindel, Aachen. 1927.

Web links

Picture description of the Madonna della Sedia, copy of a picture of Raphael

Individual evidence

^ Fey, p. 60.
↑ Fey, p. 29f.
↑ Keutgens, no. 75. At this point in time the painting was in the possession of Miss van Rey.
^ Inventory books of the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum , Aachen; Schrouff, end number 37.
↑ s. a. http://www.reiff-museum.rwth-aachen.de/achim/reiffdatenbank/output/output_ausgabemaske.php?id=173
↑ Fey, p. 60: "This etching is listed in Nagler's Artist Lexicon (XVIII, p. 362) according to Weigel's art catalog No. 14 453b as" The immaculate Mary on clouds and the crescent moon knitted by the snake "."
↑ Fey, pp. 59f.

personal data
SURNAME	Thomas, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German portrait and history painter
DATE OF BIRTH	March 7, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH	Aachen
DATE OF DEATH	June 7, 1879
Place of death	Aachen

[1] Fey, p. 60.

[2] Fey, p. 29f.

[3] Keutgens, no. 75. At this point in time the painting was in the possession of Miss van Rey.

[4] Inventory books of the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum , Aachen; Schrouff, end number 37.

[5] s. a. http://www.reiff-museum.rwth-aachen.de/achim/reiffdatenbank/output/output_ausgabemaske.php?id=173

[6] Fey, p. 60: "This etching is listed in Nagler's Artist Lexicon (XVIII, p. 362) according to Weigel's art catalog No. 14 453b as" The immaculate Mary on clouds and the crescent moon knitted by the snake "."

[7] Fey, pp. 59f.