Max Thedy

Max Thedy studied at Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. Anton Nissen is recorded as having studied under Max Thedy. The recorded working language is German. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Munich, Weimar and Katwijk. Employment is recorded with Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and Bauhaus. Work by Max Thedy is recorded in the collections of Bavarian State Painting Collections and Smithsonian American Art Museum.

He was born in Munich. 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. After 1875, he was a student at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. In 1882, aged only twenty-four, he was called to be a professor at the Grand-Ducal Saxon Art School, Weimar. Among his best known students were Elisabeth Thiermann, Christian Rohlfs, Ernest Biedermann and Rudolf Schmidt-Dethloff. In 1919, he became an instructor at the Bauhaus and, in 1921, was named a Professor there. He died in 1924 in Polling. His works have been shown throughout Europe and the United States; most recently at exhibitions in Weimar (2002), Überlingen and Frankfurt am Main (2005).

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