Explore Hans Thoma’s 1886 Apollon and Marsyas, a masterful oil painting where a satyr and a god face off in a riverbank music contest beneath mournful Muses, capturing the myth’s tension and poetic darkness.
Discover Hans Thoma’s 1895 masterpiece The Spring, where a lyre-playing maiden, a drinking youth, and winged putti celebrate the season’s renewal beside a forest stream in luminous color.
Discover Hans Thoma’s 1878 Cloud of Angels, a masterful oil on canvas depicting a luminous host of cherubic figures emerging from clouds above a darkening sky, balanced by a solitary bird in flight—an allegory of innocence and transcendence.
Explore Hans Thoma’s Mother and Child in a Garden (1886), a twilight-hued portrayal of maternal devotion set in a secluded garden, where tender gestures and symbolic detail evoke themes of care, transience, and the cycles of life.
Discover Hans Thoma’s 1883 Portrait of the Two Daughters of the Haag Family, where two sisters in matching cerulean gowns convey the nuances of sisterhood, innocence, and 19th-century elegance.
Explore Hans Thoma’s Allegory of August, a 19th-century pen-and-ink allegory depicting a harvest goddess stirring warm summer winds above golden fields, framed by saints’ feast days and weather symbols under the Virgo sign.
Delve into Hans Thoma’s Allegory of June, a 19th-century pen-and-ink drawing where a nude figure atop a swirling cloud reaches for berries above a riverside village, framed by saints’ feast days and weather symbols.
Explore Hans Thoma’s 19th-century pen-and-ink Allegory of July, where a mythic storm-deity wields a hammer amid swirling clouds, framed by saints’ feast days and weather symbols that capture the month’s heat, storms, and skies.
Discover Hans Thoma’s Allegory of September, a 19th-century pen-and-ink masterpiece blending harvest symbolism, liturgical calendars, and astrological motifs into a richly detailed seasonal tableau.
Explore Hans Thoma’s Allegory of October, a 19th-century pen-and-ink masterpiece that blends harvest symbolism, liturgical calendars, and astrological motifs into a richly detailed seasonal tableau.
Discover Hans Thoma’s Allegory of November, a late-19th-century masterpiece that fuses allegorical figures, calendrical data, and seasonal symbolism into a unified vision of November’s elemental forces.
Hans Thoma’s “Allegory of December” (1896) is a richly symbolic artwork portraying the final month of the year as a cloaked wanderer beneath the night sky. This analysis explores the figure’s mythological identity, astrological and calendrical references, and the painting’s deep connection to time, nature, and spiritual reflection in German symbolism.