Hans Thoma
Amor vincit omnia (Liebespaar mit Amor und Tod)
1876.
Oil on structured cardboard, laid on firm cardboard.
Lower right monogrammed and dated. 24.8 x 23.8 cm (9.7 x 9.3 in).
• Intimate motif: Painted when Thoma was engaged to Cella Berteneder before their marriage in 1877.
• The flower painter was Thoma"s most important model, further homages to her as the goddess Flora followed.
• Love and Death: programmatic reference to his important “Self-Portrait with Death and Cupid” from 1875 at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe.
• Works by the artist are in the Alte Nationalgalerie, State Museums Berlin, the Neue Pinakothek, Bavarian State Painting Collections, Munich and the Galerie Neue Meister, Albertinum, Dresden; the most important and largest Thoma collections are part of Städel Museum, Frankfurt and the Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
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