Michele Theile

Michele Theile (actually Michael Theile , born August 24, 1935 in Positano ) is a painter who lives and works in Positano, Italy .

Life

Michele Theile was born in Positano as the son of German parents, Ilse Bruck-Bondy (* 1897) and Harald Theile, who left National Socialist Germany as Jews and emigrated to Italy .

Basic for his artistic education were the acquaintances with painters who had left Germany between the 1930s and the beginning of the 1940s and who lived permanently in Positano. As a young man, Theile met the writer Stefan Andres , his mother typed the manuscript of the novella Wir sind Utopia . At fifteen he found his masters in the painters Karli Sohn-Rethel and Kurt Craemer . He became friends with Werner Gilles and Roberto Scielzo (1906–1973).

From 1950 he studied at the Art Academy in Bremen and also graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . In 1957 he returned to Positano, where he still works today. He went on study trips to France, Greece, England, Switzerland and Austria.

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Theile mainly paints deserted landscapes and cities with the typical and well-known motifs of southern Italy. Cubic, overlapping forms, painted with a reduced color palette with fine tonal gradations and the contouring of the forms by shadow lines are the striking features of his pictures.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1962: Southern Impressions, Italian Cultural Institute, Cologne and International Educational Works "Die Brücke eV", Düsseldorf
• 1964: Oil paintings, gouaches, graphics; Positano. Kunstamt Charlottenburg, Berlin
• 1965: Basilisk Gallery, Vienna
• 1965: Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Hamburg
• 1978: Museo Vivo, Rome
• 2005: Le case vere, Pinacoteca Provinciale, Salerno

Web links

• Michele Theile on Arcadja.com , accessed June 15, 2015
• Michael Theile, short biography (Italian) , at Musei e Biblioteche, Provincia di Salerno, accessed June 15, 2015

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gottfried Schwabe: Margarete: in search of my mother; a life story in letter form. Königshaus & Neumann, Würzburg 2004, ISBN 3-8260-2646-2 , p. 198.
2. ↑ Michele Theile, Positano: Oil paintings, gouaches, graphics - exhibition March 14 to April 4, 1964  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Poster exhibition Michele Theile. Positano. March 5 - 26, 1965 in the Basilisk Gallery  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ^ Suggestions from the south: Otto Rohse, Michele Theile and Peter Boll exhibit, Hamburger Abendblatt from April 30, 1965, accessed June 15, 2015
5. ^ Matilde Romito: Provincia di Salerno, Assessorato ai Beni ed alle Attività Culturali: Michele Theile. Le case vere. Arti Grafiche Sud, Salerno; Fuori Commercio edizione, 2005, catalog (English)