Jakob Thiesen
Jakob Thiesen (born July 29, 1884 in Rhöndorf ; † September 22, 1914 in Argonne , France ) was a German landscape and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Thiesen, son of a winemaker, studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1900 to 1904 . There were Eduard von Gebhardt and especially Willy Spatz his teachers. He was regularly represented with figurines and landscapes at exhibitions in Düsseldorf, around 1909 at the Great Art Exhibition in Düsseldorf . When he died as a soldier in the First World War on the Western Front at the age of 30 , his death was received as a “heroic death”.
literature
- Thiesen, Jacob . 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.
- Thiesen, Jakob . In: Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays . Gründ, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-7000-3010-9 , Volume 13, p. 587.
Web links
Commons : Jakob Thiesen - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Jakob Thiesen , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( RKD - Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis )
Individual evidence
- ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
- ↑ Necrologist . In: Kunstchronik , Volume 26 (1914/1915), Issue No. 16 from January 15, 1915 ( digitized version )
- ↑ Die Kunst für Alle , Volume 31, F. Bruckmann, Munich 1915
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thiesen, Jakob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 29, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rhöndorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 22, 1914 |
| Place of death | Argonne , France |