Leopold Thieme

Leopold Thieme (born July 15, 1880 in Rochlitz , † May 1963 in Lübeck ) was a German painter and draftsman.

Life

After attending school in Zwickau, Thieme studied shipbuilding in Dresden and at the Technical University of Charlottenburg from 1900, but during his studies he got in touch with art and artist circles by getting to know Max Beckmann, among others . In 1908 he became a student of Lovis Corinth . In Lübeck he met his wife, with whom he lived for a long time in Paris and in Yport in Normandy after their marriage in 1910 . Here he turned to drawing with a reed pen . When he returned to Berlin, he exhibited at the Berlin Secession . In 1915 he moved permanently to Lübeck, where he now found his motifs. In the 1920s he belonged to the circle around his Lübeck colleagues Erwin Bossanyi , Erich Dummer and the organist Hugo Distler .

As an impressive inventory, he wrote a cycle of drawings of the destruction of Lübeck by the air raid on Lübeck Palmarum in 1942, which is owned by the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities in the collection of the St. Anne's Museum .

From 1960, Thieme became completely blind.

Museum ownership and exhibitions

• Memorial exhibition Lübeck 1963.
• Museum property in the graphic collections of the Museum of Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck and the Kunsthalle Kiel .

Illustrations

• Lübeck homeland book. Edited on behalf of the Senate of the Monument Council, Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1926

literature

• Abram Enns: Art and the Bourgeoisie. Lübeck 1978 ISBN 3767205718 , pp. 266-273
• Heiko Jäckstein: Künstlerkolonie Gothmund , p. 209 ff. In: Lübeck contributions to family history and heraldry, Volume 69 Gothmund 2019, ISSN 2366-1240

Web links

• Website of the Leopold Thieme estate
• Literature by and about Leopold Thieme in the catalog of the German National Library
• Leopold Thieme at artist-colony-gothmund.de Heiko Jäckstein