Thein, Heinrich - Elf Kohlezeichnungen - 1888 - 1969, one of the most expressive German small sculptors of the 20th century, trained as a potter and modeler at the Georg Bankel stove factory in Lauf/Pegnitz, then attended the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich, together with his father Thein founded an art pottery in Nuremberg in 1913. In 1925, Thein was appointed artistic director of the Sächsische Ofen- und Wandplatten-Werke in Meissen, where he was responsible for the modelling department and worked as a teacher at the factory school, from this creative period mainly small sculptures - some signed - by his hand are known, while his designs for stoves and architectural ceramics remained largely anonymous, T.s best-known work in Meissen is the Benno Altar, which he created free of charge in 1934 for the Catholic parish church of St. Benno Meissen in honor of the Holy Year 1933/34, this side altar was demolished again in 1958/59 and only the figure of St. Bishop Benno has survived, in the parish church of St. Benno Meissen you can find works by The. In 1945, Thein moved to the State Porcelain Manufactory in Meissen as artistic director, where he created several small porcelain sculptures and was also responsible for vocational training, who had previously devoted himself exclusively to small sculptures, in 1946 produced the model of the large sculpture "Aufbau", a memorial for the reconstruction of the Meissen Elbe Bridge, which was the first of the large bridges destroyed in the last years of the war to be rebuilt in the Soviet Occupation Zone in 1945/46. 1949 at the bridgehead and was then to be executed in giant stone granite in one of the sculptor's workshops, but was forgotten due to lack of money and fell into disrepair, Thein moved to Nienburg/Weser on May 1, 1949 as artistic director of the Rohna stove factory, and from 1951 T. lived in Haßfurt, where he worked as a freelance artist until the end of his life. There, too, he received great recognition and created sculptures for public spaces, such as the fountain in the rose garden, around 1960 he redesigned the house chapel in the Salesianum, since 1980 the state vocational school in Hassfurt has borne his name, "Flucht", "Betende", "Maler", "Gang nach Bethlehem", "Am Grabe", "Arbeitsloser", Der Onkel und sein Neffe", Mutter mit schlafendem Kind", "Fließband", "Bettler", "Am Fließband", charcoal/thin, gray paper, each signed lower right, partly dated (19)31 and partly titled lower left, drawing studies and partly probably templates for sculptures, partly browned, each trimmed and mounted on paper, partly stained, 1x torn, approx. 30x27.5cm, ca. 18.5x16cm, ca. 30x11cm, ca. 30x14.4cm, ca. 18x25.5cm, 26x14cm, ca. 24x11cm, ca. 20x12.5cm, ca. 12.5x14cm, ca. 14x10cm, ca. 13x17.5cm
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