Rudolf Thienhaus
Rudolf Thienhaus (born August 2, 1873 in Engelskirchen , † March 25, 1962 in Eidinghausen ) was a German painter and lithographer.
Thienhaus came from a reformed pastor family. He received his artistic training first at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich as a student of Paul Hoecker , where he matriculated in 1897, then at the Berlin Academy , where he was a student of Max Koner and Arthur Kampf . In 1898 he received the Adolph Menzel Prize of the Academy, in 1899/1900 a scholarship from the Reichenheim Foundation and in 1907 the Small Gold Medal for Art at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition for his Last Supper , which shows the distribution of the Last Supper in the Schöneberg village church .
Thienhaus' wife and mother of their child Peter Thienhaus died early. Rudolf Thienhaus later lived in the Netherlands and his son grew up in Lübeck with the family of Rudolf's brother, the grammar school professor Paul Thienhaus, together with his children, including Erich Thienhaus and Waltraut Thienhaus, from 1933 wife of Hugo Distler .
Works
- Still life , in the Stadtmuseum Berlin
- Last Supper in the parish hall of the Church of Heilsbronnen in Berlin-Schöneberg
- Wilhelm Jannasch , Aegidienkirche (Lübeck)
- Copy of the Lamentation of Christ by Van Dyck, made in 1911 for the church in Groß Rosenburg
literature
- Thienhaus, Rudolf , in: Thieme-Becker Vol. 33 (1939), p. 32
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry on Rudolf Thienhaus in the Academy's matriculation database
- ↑ Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst 10 (1898), p. 118
- ↑ Die Kunst für Alle 15 (1900), p. 144
- ↑ Zentralblatt for the entire teaching administration in Preussen 49 (1907), p. 545
- ^ Memoirs of the painter Friedrich Karl Ströher, p. 163
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thienhaus, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and lithographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 2, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Engelskirchen |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 25, 1962 |
| Place of death | Eidinghausen |