Thomas Zacharias (artist)
Thomas Zacharias (born June 21, 1930 in Planegg ) is a German artist , art historian , photographer and professor emeritus. He was a member of the executive committee of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and lives in Leutstetten .
Life
Thomas Zacharias is the son of the graphic artist and teacher Alfred Zacharias and the Düsseldorf-based art teacher and watercolorist Irmgard Zacharias. His brother was the art and culture educator Wolfgang Zacharias , his sister Veronika Zacharias is a painter. He was married to Wanda Zacharias . Their daughter Claudia emerged from the marriage. After the war he grew up in Gauting .
Thomas Zacharias worked as an art education teacher at the Klenze Gymnasium in Munich from 1956 to 1966 , then until his retirement in 1995 as professor of art education and head of a class at the Academy of Fine Arts, later also as president. After that he also worked a lot abroad, including in London as a correspondent for the Laubach features section .
The focus of his artistic work was and is graphics , illustrations, drawings and collages , many of them for book illustrations . He has written numerous works on the subject of art history and art education , as well as books for children and young people. He also works as a photographer. Zacharias is a member of the general council of the Catholic Academy in Bavaria .
His graphics and sketches were shown in the Neue Pinakothek in Munich, in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux , in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne, in the Staatsgemäldesammlungen Augsburg and in the Hamburg Deichtorhallen .
Awards
- Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (1998)
Web links
- Literature by and about Thomas Zacharias in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Zacharias, Thomas , Bibelarchiv-Vegelahn.de.
- ^ Christine Cless-Wesle: Kunstsinn in the second generation , merkur-online.de, October 1, 2002.
- ↑ Photo Exhibition in Bait al Baranda, Muscat, 2012 ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2014 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. , Muscat Daily, German-Ottoman Society.
- ^ General advice , Catholic Academy in Bavaria.
- ^ The author , Kastner AG.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zacharias, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artist, art historian, photographer and professor emeritus |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 21, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Planegg , Germany |