Sixtus Armin Thon

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Self-portrait, 1837
The forest penance , in Die Gartenlaube 1866

Sixtus Armin Thon (born November 10, 1817 in Eisenach , Thuringia , † September 26, 1901 in Weimar , Thuringia) was a German painter , etcher and lithographer .

Life

Born in Eisenach, Sixtus Armin Thon, son of the mineralogist , natural scientist and copper engraver Theodor Thon (1792–1838) began studying painting at the Art Academy in Leipzig in 1837 , which he then studied with Friedrich Preller the Elder at the Princely Free Drawing School in Weimar continued with which he undertook study trips to the Thuringian Forest , Norway and the Netherlands .

In the 1850s, Thon also ran a photography studio; Along with Adelbert Schenk, he was one of the pioneers of early photography in Weimar.

After Thon had completed his training in Antwerp , he was employed as a teacher at the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar from 1861 , and he later also taught at the Sophienstift there . Sixtus Armin Thon emerged particularly as a genre and landscape painter , but also made a name for himself as an etcher and lithographer. He died in Weimar in 1901 just before the age of 84.

There are pictures of him. a. in the municipal collections of Braunschweig .

literature

  • Anton Bettelheim : Biographical Yearbook and German Nekrolog, Volume 6, G. Reimer, Berlin, 1904, page 566.
  • Anton Kippenberg , Goethe Museum Düsseldorf, Anton-und-Katharina-Kippenberg-Foundation: Yearbook of the Kippenberg Collection, Volume 1, Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1963, page 50.
  • Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 10, KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-23163-6 , page 22.
  • Axel Stefek: Photographs on paper. Weimar's first photographers: Sixt Armin Thon, Adelbert Schenk, Ludwig and Ignaz Frisch . In: Weimar-Jena. The big city. Das Kulturhistorisches Archiv 7 (2014), no. 4, pp. 297–311; 8 (2015), H. 1, pp. 5-21; 8 (2015), no. 2, pp. 155-168.

Web links

Commons : Sixt Armin Thon  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Administrative report of the city of Braunschweig , 1951 (p. 86)
personal data
SURNAME Thon, Sixtus Armin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thon, Sixt; Thon, S. Armin; Thon, Sixt Armin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, etcher and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenach , Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1901
Place of death Weimar , Thuringia