Opdateret oktober 2026 · rangeret efter vores popularitetsscore (søgninger, besøg og ordrer for hvert værk) · 194 værker af Hans Thoma i vores katalog
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Apollo and Marsyas (1888) er det maleri af Hans Thoma, der vækker mest opsigt; originalen findes på Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Derefter falder blikket på Mother and Child in a Garden (1906) og The Artist (1866). Blandt de 194 værker af Hans Thoma i vores katalog er disse 100 de mest berømte, hver især et unikt originalværk præsenteret med sit årstal, sit museum og årsagen til dets tidløse betydning.
In a quiet, wooded glade, two figures sit amidst the vertical shadows of cypress trees. The air feels heavy with the scent of damp earth and sun-warmed pine. On the left, Apollo holds his lyre, the instrument a delicate extension of his frame. To the right, Marsyas breathes life into the aulos, the double flute requiring a deep, rhythmic lung capacity. They are nude, their musculature rendered with a soft,…
The garden is held in the blue shadows of dusk. An older woman sits as a stable, triangular anchor against the dark, organic curves of tree trunks and reaching branches. She wears a garment of muted crimson, a single pulse of color amidst the deep indigos and earthy browns of the night. In her arms, she cradles an infant wrapped in pale swaddling. The light is low and directional, catching…
In the tender embrace of The Artist, Hans Thoma invites us into a private, domestic moment that feels both timeless and deeply personal. The painting presents a poignant portrait of two women—one older, one younger—caught in a shared instance of quiet contemplation. The elder woman, her features softened by wisdom and framed by spectacles, holds an open book, her focus anchored to the written word. Beside her, the younger woman…
The Art Author Conrad Fiedler is a portrait painted by Hans Thoma in 1884. The subject, Conrad Fiedler, was a German art historian, philosopher, collector, patron, and author of art theoretical writings. He lived from 1841 to 1895. The brush captures a man of thought, a figure defined by his intellectual weight and his deep connection to the study of art.
This 1876 portrait presents a medium close-up of a bearded man in profile, facing toward the right. The composition is rendered in a grayscale palette, utilizing a range of tones from deep blacks in the subject's formal attire to pale, luminous highlights on the forehead, cheek, and white shirt. The subject's face is defined by subtle lines that trace the contours of the skin and the voluminous, thick texture of…
The air thickens with the heat of an unfolding allegory in The War. Painted by Hans Thoma in 1907, this oil on canvas captures a moment of intense, fiery upheaval. The work exists within the permanent collection of the Städel Museum, where it remains a powerful presence. Every brushstroke contributes to a scene that feels caught in the middle of a sudden, violent transformation.
The artwork titled Portrait of Mrs. Cella Thoma is a painting by the artist Hans Thoma. Created in 1883, this work belongs to the portrait genre. The subject of the piece is Cella Thoma.
In this oil painting from 1897, we find ourselves in a landscape that feels heavy with the weight of what is about to happen. The scene is set during the quiet, golden hours of twilight, where the warmth of the sunset sky meets the deepening shadows of a dense, lush forest. At the center of this composition, a tree trunk draped in a stark white cloth acts as a vertical…
is an oil painting by Hans Thoma. Created in 1878, the work belongs to a period in the artist's career that reflects his engagement with the spiritual and the natural world. Thoma, who lived from 1839 to 1924, developed a distinct visual language that often bridged the gap between academic tradition and a more personal, imaginative vision.
The composition centers on a sunlit shoreline where a muscular male figure meets a group of women. This man, Hercules, is depicted with a powerful physique and holds a heavy club in his hand. He stands on the sand, his body positioned to face Hesione, the daughter of King Laomedon of Troy. Hesione is draped in a white garment that flows around her form, and her expression carries a mixture…
Feeding chickens1867 · Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
12
Portrait of Ida Müller, née Scholderer1877 · Städel Museum
13
Portrait of Ela with a basket1883 · Nationalmuseet i Warszawa
14
Woman portrait1882 · Kunsthalle Mannheim
15
Christ and Saint PeterNationalmuseet i Warszawa
16
Forest Interior with Reading Boy1860 · Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
17
Peasant Boy at the Edge of the Forest1862 · Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
18
Stony Path at the Forest Edge with Seated Man1860 · Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
19
Bouquet of wild flowers1872 · Alte Nationalgalerie
20
The bee friend1863 · Alte Nationalgalerie
21
Summer Morning in the Bernau Valley1863 · Augustiner Museum
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The bee friend1863 · Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
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Young farmer at the grain field1862 · Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
24
The Village Fiddler1871 · Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
25
The Shepherd with goat1869 · Landesmuseum Mainz
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Girl feeding chicken1870 · Bavarian State Painting Collections
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Agathe Thoma, sister of the artist1868
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Agathe with a white dog1869 · Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
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Artist's Mother in a Little Room1870 · Kunst Museum Winterthur | Reinhart am Stadtgarten
30
Portrait of the painter Wilhelm Steinhausen1869 · Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
31
In the sunshine1867 · Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
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Sewing girl1868 · Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
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Forester Kollmann1872 · Bavarian State Painting Collections
34
Otto Frölicher1875 · Bavarian State Painting Collections
35
Barbara Kollmann1876 · Bavarian State Painting Collections
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Angel Concert1876
37
Scuffling Boys1872 · Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
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Hamlet and Horatio at Ophelia's Grave1872 · Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
39
Spring in the mountains, Children dancing in a ring1874
40
In the Hammock1876 · Städel Museum
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The siblings1873 · Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
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On the field1876 · Rijksmuseum Twenthe
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Summer1872 · Alte Nationalgalerie
44
A Peaceful Sunday1876 · Hamburger Kunsthalle
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children + chickens1873
46
Dance of Faun + puttos1874
47
Diana under the tree1878 · National Museum in Wrocław
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Portrait of Agathe, artist’s sister1873 · Nationalmuseet i Warszawa
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Stream Landscape with Bathing Boys1879
50
Boy by the Brook1880
51
Haymaking1883
52
Riding on a Bird1885 · Städel Museum
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Self portrait1880 · Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
54
Portrait of a woman1884 · Bavarian State Painting Collections
55
Tritonenzug1882 · Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
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Lemon seller1880
57
Grandmother and Granddaughter with a Vegetable Basket1883
58
Girl with amoret Flora1881
59
Spring-landscape with young girl and 4 angels1879
60
young woman with child1880
61
The gardener1881 · Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
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The Sculptor Erwin Kurz1887 · Lenbachhaus
63
Through the Floods1889
64
In Paradise1891 · Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
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Såmannen1888 · Nationalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design
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Knight Saint George1889 · Alte Nationalgalerie
67
Archers1887 · Alte Nationalgalerie
68
Guardian in front of the Garden of Love1890 · Alte Nationalgalerie
69
Girl Portrait (Ella with straw hat)1888 · Alte Nationalgalerie
70
Still life with a hare, pheasants and a lobster.1889 · Nationalmuseet i Warszawa
71
Portrait of the Artist’s Sister Agathe1886 · Augustiner Museum
72
Approaching thunderstorm1889 · Von der Heydt Museum
73
Female centaur near a cascade1886
74
Hercules, liberating the king's daughter1890
75
Uphill1886
76
Market scene1889 · Kunsthalle Mannheim
77
Temptation of Christ1890 · Nationalmuseet i Warszawa
78
Satyr's family (bringing up of Zeus)1886 · Nationalmuseet i Warszawa
79
Angel with the star of Bethlehem1887 · Nationalmuseet i Warszawa
80
The Norns1889 · Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
81
Olive Grove at Lake Garda1897 · Dallas Museum of Art
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group of young shepherds in landscape1894
83
Young faun and singing boy1895
84
Paradise1901 · Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
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Christ as Gardener1901 · Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
86
Fairy tale - Knight1904 · Nationalmuseet i Warszawa
87
Portrait of the artist's adopted daughter - Elli Blaue.1903 · Nationalmuseet i Warszawa
88
Grainfield near Oberursel1902 · Von der Heydt Museum
89
Easter Triptych: Hell1907 · Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
90
Easter Triptych: Fields of the Blessed (Paradise)1907 · Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
91
Easter Triptych: Resurrection of Christ1907 · Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
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Triptych: the Source1910 · Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
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Angels – Annunciation1906 · Nationalmuseet i Warszawa
94
Annunciation to the Shepherds1906 · Nationalmuseet i Warszawa
95
God the Father above the shed1906 · Nationalmuseet i Warszawa
96
Virgin Mary's adoration of the Child in the shed1906 · Nationalmuseet i Warszawa
97
Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden1909 · Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
98
The Flight into Egypt1876 · Alte Nationalgalerie
99
Lowland at the Rhine1869 · Alte Nationalgalerie
100
Firs by the Forest Stream1861 · Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
De fire motiver, der optræder hyppigst i disse originaler, hver med sit fineste eksempel.
De 8 museer, der rummer flest af malerierne på denne side.
| Museum | By | Værker af Hans Thoma | Malerier fra denne liste |
|---|---|---|---|
 Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe |
Karlsruhe | 59 | The Artist, Portrait of Mrs. Cella Thoma, Feeding chickens |
 Nationalmuseet i Warszawa |
Warszawa | 19 | Portrait of Ela with a basket, Christ and Saint Peter, Portrait of Agathe, artist’s sister |
 Alte Nationalgalerie |
Berlin | 16 | The Art Author Conrad Fiedler, Cloud of Angels, Bouquet of wild flowers |
 Bavarian State Painting Collections |
München | 11 | Firmin Straub, Girl feeding chicken, Forester Kollmann |
 Städel Museum |
Frankfurt | 6 | The War, Portrait of Ida Müller, née Scholderer, In the Hammock |
 Kunsthalle Mannheim |
Mannheim | 3 | Woman portrait, Market scene |
 Augustiner Museum |
Freiburg | 3 | Summer Morning in the Bernau Valley, Portrait of the Artist’s Sister Agathe |
 Von der Heydt Museum |
Wuppertal | 2 | Approaching thunderstorm, Grainfield near Oberursel |
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In the tender embrace of The Artist, Hans Thoma invites us into a private, domestic moment that feels both timeless and deeply personal. The painting presents a poignant portrait of two women—one older, one younger—caught in a shared instance of quiet contemplation. The elder woman, her features softened by wisdom and framed by spectacles, holds an open book, her focus anchored to the written word. Beside her, the younger woman…
This 1876 portrait presents a medium close-up of a bearded man in profile, facing toward the right. The composition is rendered in a grayscale palette, utilizing a range of tones from deep blacks in the subject's formal attire to pale, luminous highlights on the forehead, cheek, and white shirt. The subject's face is defined by subtle lines that trace the contours of the skin and the voluminous, thick texture of…
In a quiet, wooded glade, two figures sit amidst the vertical shadows of cypress trees. The air feels heavy with the scent of damp earth and sun-warmed pine. On the left, Apollo holds his lyre, the instrument a delicate extension of his frame. To the right, Marsyas breathes life into the aulos, the double flute requiring a deep, rhythmic lung capacity. They are nude, their musculature rendered with a soft,…
In this oil painting from 1897, we find ourselves in a landscape that feels heavy with the weight of what is about to happen. The scene is set during the quiet, golden hours of twilight, where the warmth of the sunset sky meets the deepening shadows of a dense, lush forest. At the center of this composition, a tree trunk draped in a stark white cloth acts as a vertical…
The garden is held in the blue shadows of dusk. An older woman sits as a stable, triangular anchor against the dark, organic curves of tree trunks and reaching branches. She wears a garment of muted crimson, a single pulse of color amidst the deep indigos and earthy browns of the night. In her arms, she cradles an infant wrapped in pale swaddling. The light is low and directional, catching…
Apollo and Marsyas (1888), Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Derefter følger Mother and Child in a Garden (1906) og The Artist (1866).
49 år gammel: Apollo and Marsyas er fra 1888, og Hans Thoma blev født i 1839.
Apollo and Marsyas, Mother and Child in a Garden, The Artist, The Art Author Conrad Fiedler, Firmin Straub, The War, Portrait of Mrs. Cella Thoma, Adam and Eve, Cloud of Angels og Hercules delivering Hesione. Ranglisten ovenfor viser det enkelte værks årstal og museum.
Vores katalog indeholder 194 værker af Hans Thoma, dateret fra 1860 til 1910.
Primært i Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (Karlsruhe), Nationalmuseet i Warszawa (Warszawa) og Alte Nationalgalerie (Berlin). Museumslisten ovenfor viser dem alle.
I 1880s: 31 af de 100 værker på denne side blev skabt dengang, herunder Apollo and Marsyas.
På denne side er det tidligste Forest Interior with Reading Boy (1860) og det seneste Triptych: the Source (1910).
Woman (9), Trees (5) og Man (5), fordelt på de 100 værker på denne side.
Oil On Canvas, for 13 af de 100 værker på denne side.
Romanticism, baseret på originalerne på denne side.
The Artist, Portrait of Mrs. Cella Thoma og Feeding chickens: Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe har 28 af værkerne på denne side.
Hans Thoma står som en enestående skikkelse i tysk kunsthistorie, berømt for sine stemningsfulde landskaber og portrætter, der indfanger essensen af Schwarzwald-regionen – et sted, der var dybt forankret i hans kunstneriske vision. Han blev født i Bernau bei Berlin i 1839 og påbegyndte en kunstnerisk rejse præget af en urokkelig hengivenhed til sit fædrelands traditioner og folklore. Hans liv var en delikat balance mellem minutiøs observation og en dyb følelse af romantisk idealisme, hvilket skabte et værk, der føles både jordbundet i naturen og ophøjet af en drømmeagtig kvalitet.
Thomas formative år blev formet af det landlige livs enkle rytmer; hans fars erhverv som urmager indgydede i ham en præcision og en ekstraordinær opmærksomhed på detaljen, som senere ville gennemsyre hvert eneste penselstrøg. I 1859 blev han indskrevet ved akademiet i Karlsruhe, hvor han blev vejledt af mestre som Johann Wilhelm Schirmer og Ludwig Des Coulbres. Denne periode etablerede hans fundamentale beherskelse af landskabsmaleriets teknikker. Selvom hans efterfølgende rejser gennem Düsseldorf, Paris, Italien, München og Frankfurt eksponerede ham for en hvirvelvind af forskellige kunstneriske strømninger, tjente disse internationale møder kun til at befæstede hans engagement i at indfange essensen af det tyske landliv og naturens tidløse skønhed.
Thomas særprægede stil trodser nemme kategoriseringer, men besidder uomtvistelige ligheder med den prærafaelitiske bevægelse. Ligesom værkerne af Dante Gabriel Rossetti eller John Everett Millais prioriterede Thoma at indfange atmosfæriske forhold og formidle dybe følelser gennem subtile tonale variationer og lysende farvepaletter. Hans fascination af den naturlige verdens mindste detaljer – et blads tekstur, lyset der filtreres gennem trækronerne, eller de græssende køers stille tilstedeværelse – afspejler en dedikation til realismen, som ofte tempereres af en fantasifuld, næsten mystisk vision.
Arven fra de tyske mestre spillede også en afgørende rolle i formningen af hans æstetik. Værkerne af Albrecht Dürer og Lucas Cranach den Ældre fungerede som dybe inspirationskilder, der prægede hans kompositionelle valg og hans evne til at gengive præcise konturer og omhyggelig skyggelægning. Denne blanding af klassisk præcision og romantisk sentimentalitet gjorde det muligt for ham at skabe scener, der føltes både historisk forankrede og følelsesmæssigt umiddelbare. Uanset om det var gennem en sort-hvid tegning som hans Youthful Self Portrait eller et levende, farvemættet landskab som Autumn Tree in front of Wiesental, forblev Thomas tekniske kunnen centreret omkring søgen efter sandheden i naturen.
Gennem hele sin karriere opnåede Thoma en anerkendelse, der placerede ham i hjertet af den tyske kunstscene. Hans evne til at fremkalde sindsro gennem frodigt grønt og bløde skyer – som set i værker som Landscape With Cloud – demonstrerer en næsten impressionistisk følsomhed over for lys og luft. Han malede ikke blot motiver; han malede atmosfæren i en kultur og et landskab, og transformerede Schwarzwald til et symbol på vedvarende fred og pastoral skønhed.
Hans Thomas historiske betydning ligger i hans evne til at bygge bro mellem det 19. århundredes strenge akademiske traditioner og den spirende emotionalitet i den moderne kunst. Hans bedrifter inkluderer:
I dag fortsætter Thomas værk med at resonere hos beskuere, der søger trøst i det idylliske og det evige. Hans malerier forbliver vinduer ind til en verden, hvor natur og menneske eksisterer i en harmonisk, smukt detaljeret dans.
