Chronology

October 2, 1839 Hans Thoma is born in Bernau in the Black Forest, Germany

1853 He goes to Basel, where he begins an apprenticeship in lithography before switching to one in painting

1855 Thoma receives his first basic training in technique at the hands of a painter of clock faces in Furtwangen, to whom he was briefly apprenticed

1859 He enters in the Karlsruhe academy, where he studies under Schirmer and Des Coudres

1866 Thoma leaves the academy at the end of the year and goes to DZsseldorf

May 1868 Goes to Paris

1870 Thoma moves to Munich

1874 Thoma goes to Italy for the first time and become acquainted with Hans von Marées in Rome. On his return to Munich, Thoma marries Cella Barteneder, who had been his pupil, and moves to Frankfurt, remaining there until 1899

1890 The first successful exhibition is mounted by the Munich Kunstverein and Thoma joins the Munich Secession

1899 Thoma is made a director of a gallery in Karlsruhe and is appointed  as a professor at the art academy there

1919 Hans Thoma retires from his post as a director of the Karlsruhe Kunsthalle

November 7, 1924 Hans Thoma dies in Karlsruhe