Bidspirit auction | Hans Thoma (1839-1924): Landscape, 1886

Hans Thoma (1839-1924): Landscape, 1886 - Hans Thoma (1839-1924): Landscape, 1886 Original lithograph with passepartout framed behind glass in a veneered wooden frame. Depiction of a hilly landscape with mountains in the background under a sky with spring clouds. A solitary figure with a hat, shouldering a hoe, moves along a path. Signed and dated lower right: HT 86. dimensions: frame dimensions approx. 4105 x 33.5 cm, image dimensions approx. 29 x 21 cm. Good condition with traces of age and use, slight staining. Artist info: German painter and graphic artist. Painter and graphic artist (1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe), initially trained as a lithographer and parlor painter in Basel and as a clock sign maker in Furtwangen, parallel self-taught painting and drawing studies, studied 1859-66 at the Karlsruhe art school under Ludwig Des Coudres and Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, then briefly in Basel and Düsseldorf, 1868 stay in Paris, influenced by Gustave Courbet and the Barbizon school, 1870-76 in Munich, 1874 first trip to Italy with a stay in Rome, from 1878 active in Frankfurt am Main, 1899-1901 in Kronberg and member of the Kronberg painters' colony, friendship and inspiration from Arnold Böcklin, Wilhelm Leibl, Wilhelm Steinhausen and Wilhelm Trübner, appointed professor in 1899, 1899-1920 director of the Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, source: Thieme-Becker and Internet.