Theodor Matthei
Theodor Matthei (born January 31, 1857 in Marburg , † March 6, 1920 in Kassel ) was a German painter, member of the Willingshausen painters' colony , grandson of Johann Friedrich Matthei .
Matthei studied at the Kassel Academy with Louis Kolitz and Hermann Knackfuß .
From 1881 to 1886, while still a student, he and his classmates Jean Konrad Bohlender and Heinrich Otto visited the painters' colony in Willingshausen during the summer months, where he also became friends with Adolf Lins and Emil Zimmermann .
Matthei initially painted landscapes with staffage. Later he created genre pictures from Schwalm life. In 1887 he spent a few months in Munich. Around 1900 he visited Italy and painted sunny landscape studies from the area around Rome.
Works in museums
- Neue Galerie , Kassel The arsonist
literature
- W. Schäfer: Theodor Matthei †. (Obituary) In: Hessenland . 34th year 1920, p. 43.
- Matthei, Theodor . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 261 .
- Joachim Busse: International handbook of all painters and sculptors of the 19th century. Wiesbaden 1977, ISBN 3-9800062-0-4 , p. 821.
- Matthei, Theodor. In: Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. (called Bénézit ) 4th edition, Paris 1999, Volume 9, p. 374.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Matthei, Theodor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape and genre painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 6, 1920 |
| Place of death | kassel |