Galerie Paul Prouté

Born in Bohemia, Carl Thiemann initially took a job in commerce to support his family in need, despite already having a predisposition for drawing. His talent was noticed, however, and at the age of 25 he was awarded a scholarship to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where he took courses in painting and engraving. There he met Walther Klemm, a wood engraver trained by Emil Orlik, who had returned from his trip to Japan in 1901 with the techniques of Japanese xylography.
Drawing on these lessons in particular, Thiemann produced coloured woodcuts, which won him recognition and enabled him to exhibit his work in Germany and Austria, as well as in Paris, London and Zurich. He joined several artistic associations, and became a member of the Vienna Secession in 1910. Accompanied by his friend Walther Klemm, he travelled to Berlin, Dresden and Vienna, and it was in 1908 that the two young printmakers discovered and settled in the artists’ colony that had been established in Dachau since the 19th century. Following in the footsteps of the French Barbizon school, the artists in this small town in the Munich countryside painted landscapes from the ground up. Charmed by these landscapes, admired by artists for their moss-covered peat bogs, the artist remained there until his death in 1966.