Wilhelm THÖNY was born in Graz in 1888. 1908 to 1912 studied at the Munich Academy. During the First World War, Thöny volunteered in the war in 1915. During this time numerous portrait studies were made. Co-founder of the Munich (1913) and Graz Secession (1923), the painter and graphic artist worked as an illustrator from 1914. Later he created landscapes and figures. 1931 to 1938 stay in Paris and on the Côte d’Azur. In 1938 Thöny moved to New York. In a fire in a warehouse in New York, over a thousand of his paintings and graphics are destroyed and a large part of his life’s work is lost.
A stroke of fate from which he will not recover. As a person and artist, Thöny was a loner who did not feel obliged to any art direction. The artist died in New York in 1949. 1950 – first exhibition in the Welz gallery.
Wilhelm THÖNY was born in Graz in 1888. 1908 to 1912 studied at the Munich Academy. During the First World War, Thöny volunteered in the war in 1915. During this time numerous portrait studies were made. Co-founder of the Munich (1913) and Graz Secession (1923), the painter and graphic artist worked as an illustrator from 1914. Later he created landscapes and figures. 1931 to 1938 stay in Paris and on the Côte d’Azur. In 1938 Thöny moved to New York. In a fire in a warehouse in New York, over a thousand of his paintings and graphics are destroyed and a large part of his life’s work is lost.
A stroke of fate from which he will not recover. As a person and artist, Thöny was a loner who did not feel obliged to any art direction. The artist died in New York in 1949. 1950 – first exhibition in the Welz gallery.
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