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Ernst Thoms BIOGRAPHY
1896 Nienburg, Germany - 1983 Langeln-Wietzen, Germany. Known for: Surrealist figure, landscape, still life and portrait painting, distortions, stage sets.
Ernst Thoms grew up in Nienburg on the Weser. After serving a painter's apprenticeship between 1911 and 1914, he had time to study for a few months at the Hanover School for the Decorative and... Read full biography
Ernst Thoms grew up in Nienburg on the Weser. After serving a painter's apprenticeship between 1911 and 1914, he had time to study for a few months at the Hanover School for the Decorative and Applied Arts before being conscripted. Ernst Thoms was a prisoner of war in an English internment camp but... Read full biography
Ernst Thoms grew up in Nienburg on the Weser. After serving a painter's apprenticeship between 1911 and 1914, he had time to study for a few months at the Hanover School for the Decorative and Applied Arts before being conscripted. Ernst Thoms was a prisoner of war in an English internment camp but returned home in November 1919. He once again spent some months at the Hanover School for the Decorative and Applied Arts in 1920 in the class taught by Burger-Mühlfeld, where he was introduced to... Read full biography
Ernst Thoms grew up in Nienburg on the Weser. After serving a painter's apprenticeship between 1911 and 1914, he had time to study for a few months at the Hanover School for the Decorative and Applied Arts before being conscripted. Ernst Thoms was a prisoner of war in an English internment camp but returned home in November 1919. He once again spent some months at the Hanover School for the Decorative and Applied Arts in 1920 in the class taught by Burger-Mühlfeld, where he was introduced to Grethe Jürgens and her circle. Ernst Thoms, however, remained for the most part self-taught. His genres of choice were landscapes, still lifes and portraits. During the galloping inflation of the early 1920s, Ernst Thoms was forced to eke out a living... Read full biography
Ernst Thoms grew up in Nienburg on the Weser. After serving a painter's apprenticeship between 1911 and 1914, he had time to study for a few months at the Hanover School for the Decorative and Applied Arts before being conscripted. Ernst Thoms was a prisoner of war in an English internment camp but returned home in November 1919. He once again spent some months at the Hanover School for the Decorative and Applied Arts in 1920 in the class taught by Burger-Mühlfeld, where he was introduced to Grethe Jürgens and her circle. Ernst Thoms, however, remained for the most part self-taught. His genres of choice were landscapes, still lifes and portraits. During the galloping inflation of the early 1920s, Ernst Thoms was forced to eke out a living as a house painter but in 1924-25 he also painted advertisements and stage-sets. At that time Schwitters and Vordemberg-Gildewa... Read full biography
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Ernst Thoms grew up in Nienburg on the Weser. After serving a painter's apprenticeship between 1911 and 1914, he had time to study for a few months at the Hanover School for the Decorative and Applied Arts before being conscripted.
Ernst Thoms was a prisoner of war in an English internment camp but returned home in November 1919.
He once again spent some months at the Hanover School for the Decorative and Applied Arts in 1920 in the class taught by Burger-Mühlfeld, where he was introduced to Grethe Jürgens and her circle.
Ernst Thoms, however, remained for the most part self-taught. His genres of choice were landscapes, still lifes and portraits. During the galloping inflation of the early 1920s, Ernst Thoms was forc...But wait, there's more...
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