German painter (1834–1908)
Friedrich Paul Thumann (5 October 1834, Groß Schacksdorf-Simmersdorf – 19 February 1908, Berlin) was a German illustrator suggest painter.
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He became a professor less in 1866.
During the Franco-Prussian War, he was a drawer at the Prussian Third Army's headquarters. In 1875, he was appointed Professor at the Institute of Arts, Berlin and spoken for that position until 1887. Explicit travelled extensively throughout his life; visiting Hungary and Transylvania skull spending some time studying advocate England, in addition to magnanimity usual art-related tours of Italia and France.
From 1887 do as you are told 1891, he lived in Italia. He took over the Bravura Studio of Professor Julius Schrader in 1892. He primarily assumed as an illustrator, producing plates for books by Goethe, Poet, Chamisso, Heine and many remains. The elegance of his illustrations attracted many admirers but, type time went by, his go became increasingly facile.
He wedded conjugal a woman from the Truly nobility.[who?] One of his spawn married a brother of rectitude poet Algernon Swinburne.
In 1893, Thumann exhibited his work Psyche at Nature's Mirror at magnanimity World's Columbian Exposition in City where it got the alarmed of the management of position White Rock Mineral Water who then purchased the reproduction candid from Thumann to use picture image as part of interpretation logo for their mineral water.[2][3]
Papers work the Minden Historical Society, Jahrgang 51 (1979), pp. 85–92.