Thedy Stube in Überlingen@Weimar Schlossmuseum

Max Thedy (16 October 1858,

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- 13 August 1924,

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Peter Stapf: ''Der Maler Max Thedy (1858–1924). Leben und Werk''. Böhlau, Cologne 2014.) 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.''Max Thedy''
in the Matrikelbuch 1841–1884 of the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. After 1875, he was a student at the

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. In 1882, aged only twenty-four, he was called to be a Professor at the

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. Among his best known students were , Christian Rohlfs, and . In 1919, he became an instructor at the

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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),

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and Frankfurt am Main (2005).

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