Josef Thoma
Josef Thoma the Younger (1828-1899) - Austrian painter. The son of the renowned painter and designer Josef Thom the Elder. He was educated at the Vienna Academy of Arts. He worked in the landscape genre, depicting the mountain ranges of the Austrian Alps, mountain villages with lonely travelers and hunters, mighty black-green forests, dangerous cliffs, mad mountain streams and a lone traveler, like a small grain of sand in this deadly and endlessly beautiful grandeur.
Stylistically, Joseph Thoma is close to the artists of the so-called Düsseldorf school, who developed the genre of the romantic landscape with vivid dramatic lighting effects and changeable states. In Germany, Russian painters I. Shishkin, who studied in Dusseldorf, and F. Vasiliev are recognized as one of the masters of this trend. The works of Joseph Thom the Younger are in museums and private collections around the world, including the Vienna Historical Museum and the Albertina Museum (Vienna).
