Max Thedy
Max Thedy was a German painter, designer and engraver. He is sometimes erroneously referred to as Marc Thedy.Biography
He was the youngest of twelve children born to Johann Valentin Thedy, a Verwaltungsaktuar and his wife, Theresia. After his parents' premature deaths, he was taken in by the family of the Hamburg painter, Georg Friedrich Louis Reinhardt 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, Christian Rohlfs, and. In 1919, he became an instructor at the Bauhaus and, in 1921, was named a Professor there.
His works have been shown throughout Europe and the United States; most recently at exhibitions in Weimar, Überlingen and Frankfurt am Main.
