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At Lake Garda

Hans Thoma German
1907
Not on view

Thoma once said, "Nature often spoke to me as if in the words of a Psalm." The grazing sheep and the women in old-fashioned dress tending a baby evoke the traditional symbolism of the infant Christ. The artist earned prominence in Germany at the turn of the century with depictions of his native landscape that are suffused with spiritual and folkloric allusions. This scene, however, is set on Lake Garda, a picturesque locale in the Italian Alps.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: At Lake Garda
  • Artist: Hans Thoma (German, Bernau im Schwarzwald 1839–1924 Karlsruhe)
  • Date: 1907
  • Medium: Oil on millboard
  • Dimensions: 33 x 26 3/4 in. (83.8 x 67.9 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Gift of Hugo Reisinger, 1909
  • Object Number: 09.48
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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Hans Thoma
1911
Woman playing a lute in the meadow, Hans Thoma German, Lithograph in black and green-gray ink on vellum paper
Woman playing a lute in the meadow
Hans Thoma
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Portrait of a Woman (Mrs. von Kobestein?); verso: Sketches of two or three compositions, including a landscape, Hans Thoma German, Pen and brush and brown-gray ink.
Portrait of a Woman (Mrs. von Kobestein?); verso: Sketches of two or three compositions, including a landscape
Hans Thoma
1866
View in the Black Forest (Valley near St. Blasien), Hans Thoma German, Pen and black ink, over a sketch in graphite, heightened with white gouache
View in the Black Forest (Valley near St. Blasien)
Hans Thoma
1900
Inferno, Franz von Stuck German, Oil on canvas
Inferno
Franz von Stuck
1908

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