Gabriel Thompson

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Gabriel Thompson (* 1861 in Bridgwater ; † 1935 ) was a painter and illustrator.

Life

Gabriel Thompson studied at the Art Academy in Munich ; Karl Raupp , Nikolaus Gysis and Ludwig von Löfftz were among his teachers . A scholarship from the Bavarian King took him to Baden in the Black Forest and the Swiss and Italian Alps. Above all, the South Tyrolean School of Painting with its early Impressionist conception of landscape shaped his later work. "While the Munich painters of the professors' generation were looking for the most realistic possible reproduction of landscape and genre scenes, a nervous brush stroke became Thompson's as well as Lovis Corinth's trademark, with whom he shared early engagements and a studio".

Thompson created portraits, genre and landscape images and illustrations. He worked as an illustrator mainly for the publisher E. Nister in London ; Among other things, he created the pictures for the outline picture book Noah's Arche by Cornelie Lechler , which was published by Theodor Stroefer around 1895 and was probably based on an English-language text.

The National Museum of Wales owns The Beach at St. Malo and Bridge of the Visp by Thompson.

Web links

Commons : Gabriel Thompson  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In Thieme-Becker , the place of birth appears in the spelling “Bridgewater” with the addition “Engl.”
  2. ^ Corinth, L., Schuster, P.-K., Vitali, C., & Butts, B. (1996). Lovis Corinth. Munich: Prestel. ISBN 3-7913-1682-6 , p. 123f.
  3. ↑ Gabriel Thompson on www.invaluable.com
  4. ^ Association of German Antiquaries e. V., 57th Antiquarian Book Fair Stuttgart , Heilsbronn 2018, p. 34 ( digitized version )
  5. ↑ THOMPSON, Gabriel on museum.wales
personal data
SURNAME Thompson, Gabriel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thompson, GH; Thompson, Gabriel H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Bridgwater
DATE OF DEATH 1935