Wilhelm Thierry

Wilhelm Adam Thierry (born September 26, 1761 in Bruchsal , † July 26, 1823 in Rudolstadt ) was a German landscape painter, etcher and architect of classicism and brother of Ferdinand Thierry .

After studying painting with Ferdinand Kobell in Mannheim , Thierry worked from 1794 to 1810, first as a landgrave drawing master in Homburg and then as a court painter in Sachsen-Meiningen . After studying architecture with Friedrich Weinbrenner in Karlsruhe from 1810 to 1812 , he was appointed Princely Building Director in Rudolstadt, where he built the east wing of Heidecksburg Palace .

His collection of drawings by Weinbrenner and his students came to Philadelphia in 1859 , where his nephew Theodore Thierry († 1870) had been active since 1833.

literature

Thierry, Wilhelm . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . 5th unchanged edition. tape 4 : Raab – Vezzo . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 404 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Thierry, Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 33 : Theodotos vacation . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1939, p. 34 .
Helmut Tenner: Mannheim art collector and art dealer until the middle of the nineteenth century. Mannheim, 1966, p. 241 (detail scan books.google.de )

Web links

Wilhelm Adam Thierry (German, 1761-1823). artnet.de

Individual evidence

↑ Thierry, Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 33 : Theodotos vacation . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1939, p. 34 .
↑ David. B. Brownlee (Ed.): Friedrich Weinbrenner, Architect of Karlsruhe. A Catalog of the Drawings in the Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 1986, pp. 9 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Thierry, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Thierry, Wilhelm Adam (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German landscape painter and architect of classicism and brother of Ferdinand Thierry
DATE OF BIRTH	September 26, 1761
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bruchsal
DATE OF DEATH	July 26, 1823
Place of death	Rudolstadt

[1] Thierry, Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 33 : Theodotos vacation . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1939, p. 34 .

[2] David. B. Brownlee (Ed.): Friedrich Weinbrenner, Architect of Karlsruhe. A Catalog of the Drawings in the Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 1986, pp. 9 f.