Thomas Niederreuther

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Thomas Niederreuther (born July 1, 1909 in Munich ; † January 23, 1990 there ) was a German businessman, painter and writer.

Life as a merchant

Niederreuther studied economics, political science and sociology in Hamburg, Berlin and Munich. After completing his doctorate, he took over the family business, a delicatessen trading company.

Working as an artist

He learned painting and writing on a self-taught basis, painting among other things through numerous trips to Europe and the USA.

In 1949 he became a member of the Neue Gruppe , an association of visual artists in Munich, in whose group exhibitions in the Haus der Kunst he regularly participated from 1949. In 1962 his work was shown for the first time at a solo exhibition in Munich, Mannheim and Cologne. Thomas Niederreuther was a member of the German Association of Artists . In 1984 he and his son Tomy founded the Niederreuther Foundation to promote Bavarian painters and to collect their works. He was friendly with the painter Josef Fottner, among others .

Niederreuther has published five novels and several volumes of short stories. There are also three books with aphorisms .

Works

  • The sons. Toth, Hamburg 1945
  • Aphorisms. Toth, Hamburg 1949
  • Jakob Kienast. Toth, Hamburg 1949

literature

  • Niederreuther, Thomas . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 479 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography .
  2. ↑ The company still exists today ( company website ).
  3. ↑ Short biography .
  4. ↑ See the list of former members of the New Group.
  5. ↑ Short biography .
  6. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Niederreuther, Thomas ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on November 26, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  7. ^ Foundation website .
  8. ↑ Overview on the Foundation's homepage .
personal data
SURNAME Niederreuther, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant, painter and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1990
Place of death Munich