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Carl Robert Arthur Thiele (2 November 1860 – 18 June 1936) was a German painter, illustrator, draftsman, postcard designer, and watercolourist.
Carl Robert Arthur Thiele (2 November 1860 – 18 June 1936) was a German painter, illustrator, draftsman, postcard designer, and watercolourist.
Early life
Thiele was born inLeipzig
Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as wel ...
, the son of Carl Gotthelf Thiele (1813–1885), an instrument maker, and his wife Friederike Wilhelmine Flügel (1817–1874) and grew up and studied art there."Thiele, Carl Robert Arthur", in Detlef Lorenz, ''Reklamekunst um 1900. Künstlerlexikon für Sammelbilder'' (Berlin: Reimer, 2000, , p. 123
Work
Thiele designed album illustrations for the Cologne chocolate producer Ludwig Stollwerck, such as the Joke series for the Stollwerck album no. 13 of 1912. Thiele's younger son Emil Max Fritz Thiele wrote in 1969: "All his life, with a few exceptions, he was doing bread and butter work, which, however, gave him great satisfaction... sheet music, diplomas, postcards, book illustrations, designs for paper lanterns, school primers, children's books, jokes, and much more. The postcard played a major role in Thiele's work. Among other subjects, he specialized in humanized animals, especiallydachshund
The dachshund ( or ; German: "badger dog"), also known as the wiener dog, badger dog, and sausage dog, is a short-legged, long-bodied, hound-type dog breed. The dog may be smooth-haired, wire-haired, or long-haired, and comes in a variety of c ...
s and cats, and among fellow illustrators he was known as 'Dachshund-Thiele' or 'Katzen-Thiele'.
Personal life
In 1886 Thiele married Lena Anna Louise Fischer (1861–1944). They had two sons: Carl Arthur Walter (born 1889), who became a painter, graphic artist, and lecturer at the Leipzig Academy of Art, and Emil Max Fritz (1899–1971).Kugler (1998), pp. 5–7Commemoration
A street in Leipzig, ''Arthur-Thiele-Weg'', is named after Thiele.Kugler (1998), p. 77Selected books illustrated
*Anna Marquardsen, ''Miezekätzchen. Ein Gruß unserm Liebling. Mit Bildern von Arthur Thiele'' (Nuremberg: Jasper, 1920) *Albert Sixtus
Albert Sixtus (12 May 1892 – 24 February 1960) was a German children's writer. During a career spanning almost thirty years, Sixtus wrote over 100 books, including fairytales, picture books, young adult fiction and a book of poems."Carl Robert Arthur Thiele"
German National Library
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1860 births
1936 deaths
German illustrators
People from Leipzig