Paul Thol

Paul Thol (born January 10, 1887 in Magdeburg , † August 3, 1956 in Lüdenscheid ) was a German painter and restorer.

Life

Paul Thol was the son of the Magdeburg businessman Joseph Thol. From 1901 to 1904 he did an apprenticeship as a decorative painter and parallel to 1905, his first studies at the Magdeburg School of Applied Arts . Interrupted by two years of military service, he moved to Berlin in 1908, did practical work as a decorative painter and from 1909 to 1912 further studies at the teaching institution of the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts with Franz Seck and Max Kutschmann . Here he was already a master student with Kutschmann from 1910. Through his protection he became a teacher for the decorative painters and monument preservers at the school.

Paul Thol was drafted during the First World War in 1916, his service was that of an artistic advisory board for a war grave inspection of the Prussian War Ministry. After his discharge from the army in 1918, he worked again as a decorative painter, then became an honorary teacher at the arts and crafts school. He worked for Max Kutschmann on numerous, mostly church buildings and in various arts and crafts areas.

In October 1933 Paul Thol was appointed associate professor at the United State Schools for Free and Applied Arts and in March 1939 he became a full professor. In addition to the management of the monument class and the decorative painting class, he was also responsible for the management of the monument preservation workshop. He was a member of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts in Berlin.

During the Second World War, Paul Thol was, from 1943 onwards, as Reichskunstwart of the church monument preservation after the onset of the Allied bombings, the coordinator of the protective measures. He decided to move the works of art out of the churches.

His proximity to National Socialism prevented him from returning to school after the war. He devoted himself to the reconstruction of churches in Brandenburg, for example, he designed several glass windows for the Brandenburg Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul . From 1948 on, Thol moved to Gelsenkirchen. Here he was involved in the reconstruction of the cities of Gelsenkirchen and Hagen, as well as the churches in Gladbeck, Lüdenscheid and Eisbergen. Paul Thol died while he was doing painting work in a church in Lüdenscheid.

Ev.-luth. Johanniskirche in Hagen

Works (selection)

Schmargendorf village church , 1937/39
Painting of the gallery parapet in the Sophienkirche Brüssow according to information from Pastor Albrecht Schönherr in the spirit of the Confessing Church , 1939–1942
Ruhlsdorf village church
Evangelical Parish Church Finow
St. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Brandenburg
Evangelical Church Volmerdingsen , 1949
Evangelical Christ Church Bocholt , 1952–1954
Evangelical Church of Icebergs , 1953
Evangelical Church Neuenrade , 1953
Evangelical Lutheran St. John's Church in Hagen

literature

Annett Xenia Schulz: angel figures and scattered flowers. The church painter Paul Thol. In: Open Churches 2015. Explore the Mark Brandenburg. Förderkreis Alte Kirchen Berlin-Brandenburg, 2015, ISBN 3-928918-47-8 , pp. 96–99 ( digitized version , PDF 250 kB ).

Ulrich Althöfer: New buildings and conversions in the two decades after 1945. In: Albrecht Geck (Hrsg.): Church, art, culture: Recklinghausen and beyond. LIT Verlag, Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-12076-2 , p. 20 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Individual evidence

↑ Reich Chamber of Fine Arts. Members' personal files, p. 1264 (PDF; 3.4MB). (No longer available online.) Landesarchiv Berlin, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on May 23, 2016 .
↑ Anke Silomon, Matthias Gienke (ed.): Brüssow. The Sophienkirche and its pastor Albrecht Schönherr. Thomas Helms Verlag, Schwerin 2016, ISBN 978-3-940207-56-2 , pp. 84–87.
^ "Restoration of nine panels by the church painter Paul Thol"
↑ "beautification works for apse heaven" ( Memento of 23 May 2016 Internet Archive )
^ Winfried Schich (Ed.): Contributions to the origin and development of the city of Brandenburg in the Middle Ages. (= Volume 84, publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin) de Gruyter, Berlin 1993, ISBN 978-3-11-013983-9 , p. 364, ( limited preview in Google book search).
↑ "Painting of the coffered ceiling above the nave and the vaulted fields of the apse above the altar by Paul Thol, Berlin (1949)"
^ Research Center for Glass Painting of the 20th Century eV Mönchengladbach
↑ "The design of the large choir window comes from Paul Thol from Gelsenkirchen"

personal data
SURNAME	Thol, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and restorer
DATE OF BIRTH	January 10, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH	Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH	3rd August 1956
Place of death	Ludenscheid

[1] Reich Chamber of Fine Arts. Members' personal files, p. 1264 (PDF; 3.4MB). (No longer available online.) Landesarchiv Berlin, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on May 23, 2016 .

[2] Anke Silomon, Matthias Gienke (ed.): Brüssow. The Sophienkirche and its pastor Albrecht Schönherr. Thomas Helms Verlag, Schwerin 2016, ISBN 978-3-940207-56-2 , pp. 84–87.

[3] "Restoration of nine panels by the church painter Paul Thol"

[4] "beautification works for apse heaven" ( Memento of 23 May 2016 Internet Archive )

[5] Winfried Schich (Ed.): Contributions to the origin and development of the city of Brandenburg in the Middle Ages. (= Volume 84, publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin) de Gruyter, Berlin 1993, ISBN 978-3-11-013983-9 , p. 364, ( limited preview in Google book search).

[6] "Painting of the coffered ceiling above the nave and the vaulted fields of the apse above the altar by Paul Thol, Berlin (1949)"

[7] Research Center for Glass Painting of the 20th Century eV Mönchengladbach

[8] "The design of the large choir window comes from Paul Thol from Gelsenkirchen"