Max Thedy (16 October 1858, Munich - 13 August 1924, Polling) was a German painter, designer and engraver. He is sometimes erroneously referred to as Marc Thedy.
Biography
He was the youngest of twelve children born to Johann Valentin Thedy, a Verwaltungsaktuar (administrative assistant in the community government) and his wife, Theresia. After his parents' premature deaths, he was taken in by the family of the Hamburg painter, Georg Friedrich Louis Reinhardt (1819–1905) and encouraged to pursue a career in art.
After 1875, he was a student at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. In 1882, aged only twenty-four, he was called to be a professor at the Grand-Ducal Saxon Art School, Weimar. Among his best known students were Elisabeth Thiermann [de], Christian Rohlfs, Ernest Biedermann [de] and Rudolf Schmidt-Dethloff [de]. In 1919, he became an instructor at the Bauhaus and, in 1921, was named a Professor there.
His works have been shown throughout Europe and the United States; most recently at exhibitions in Weimar (2002), Überlingen and Frankfurt am Main (2005).
References
- ^ Peter Stapf: Der Maler Max Thedy (1858–1924). Leben und Werk. Böhlau, Cologne 2014.
- Max Thedy in the Matrikelbuch 1841–1884 of the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.
Further reading
- Peter Stapf: Der Maler Max Thedy (1858–1924). Leben und Werk. Böhlau, Köln 2014, ISBN 978-3-412-22264-2. Substantial preview @ Google Books
- Siegfried Herrmann (Ed.): Max Thedy 1858–1924. Gemälde und Zeichnungen. Stadtmuseum, Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-910053-34-3 (Exhibition catalog) Stadtmuseum Weimar
- Volker Caesar: "Überlingens letzte Renaissancefenster als Motive der Malerei des späten 19. Jahrhunderts. Gemälde von Max Thedy dokumentieren seltene Fenster." In: Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg, 36. 2007, pgs. 55–61 (Online)
External links
- More works by Thedy @ ArtNet