Hans Thoma: career timeline

German · 1839–1924 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 80 of 136 lots (59% of works) have a usable creation date; the others are listed at the end by the decade they were sold. Each work is shown once, even when it sold more than once.

Hans Thoma: works at auction by decade the work was made. Each work counted once; medians use sold works only, in US dollars.

Decade made	Works	Sold	Median sold price	Main medium
1860s	5	4	$9.2kSign up	Drawing
1870s	9	9	$3.9kSign up	Oil
1880s	15	15	$13.8kSign up	Oil
1890s	15	13	$6kSign up	Oil
1900s	14	10	$186Sign up	Etching
1910s	17	16	$280Sign up	Etching
1920s	3	2	$197Sign up	Etching

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1860s 5 works

Sold: 4 of 5
Median: $9.2kSign up
Average: $8.4kSign up
Typical size: 11.5 × 11.5 in (29 × 30 cm)
Mediums: Drawing (3), Oil (1), Watercolor (1)
Subjects: Landscapes (1)

1870s 9 works

Sold: 9 of 9
Median: $3.9kSign up
Average: $7.3kSign up
Typical size: 17 × 15 in (43 × 38 cm)
Mediums: Oil (4), Drawing (3), Watercolor (2)
Subjects: Rivers & marshes (1)

c. 1870 Am Wehr$1.8kSign up
1870 Akt unter Bäumen$1.3kSign up
1872 Auktion 479, Los 224$3.9kSign up
c. 1873 Auf der Jagd (Geistlicher im Ruderboot, am Seeufer Enten auflauernd)$5.5kSign up
c. 1875 Cella Thoma, die Frau des Künstlers$5.8kSign up · sold 2×
1876 Spring (River Main landscape)$1.9kSign up
1876 Amor vincit omnia (Liebespaar mit Amor und Tod)$24.9kSign up
1878 Frühlingsrast$20.1kSign up
c. 1879 Vorstudie zu dem Gemälde "Abendlandschaft"$670Sign up

1880s 15 works

Sold: 15 of 15
Median: $13.8kSign up
Average: $20.6kSign up
Typical size: 24.5 × 21.5 in (62 × 54 cm)
Mediums: Oil (14), Watercolor (1)
Subjects: Landscapes (1)

1880 Sommerliche Wiese$4.4kSign up
1880 Frau, Spiegel und Tod$13.8kSign up
c. 1880 Herbstfeuer$11.9kSign up
1881 Villa Borghese$13.8kSign up
1882 Taubertal mit Blick auf Rothenburg$10.9kSign up
1882 Flora$59.7kSign up
1883 Milly und Else Haag$45.2kSign up
1883 Bildnis der beiden Töchter der Familie Haag$13.6kSign up
1884 Schwarzwaldtannen (Beerenpflückerinnen)$25.2kSign up
1886 Amor erspäht die Liebenden$33.6kSign up
1887 Ella am halbrunden Fenster$9.8kSign up
1888 Tanz in den Wellen$20.3kSign up

Show 3 more (1880s)

1888 Spielende Kinder$4.9kSign up
1889 Der Meermann$5.1kSign up
c. 1889 Hügelige Landschaft (mit dem Künstlerpaar vorne rechts?)$37.5kSign up

1890s 15 works

Sold: 13 of 15
Median: $6kSign up
Average: $16.3kSign up
Typical size: 14 × 16.5 in (35 × 41 cm)
Mediums: Oil (6), Lithograph (4), Drawing (2)
Subjects: Landscapes (1)

1890 A quiet rivulet$35.4kSign up
1891 Schimmel und Sitzende$6kSign up
1892 Die Brücke (Sommerabend)$16.4kSign up
1892 Landschaft im Sturm$55.9kSign up
1892 Fünf Meeresfabelwesen$2.2kSign up
1893 Apoll und Marsyas$11.3kSign up
1895 Der Geiger$155Sign up
1895 Der GeigerUnsold
1896 Amor und Tod$390Sign up
1897 Mädchen mit Blumenkranz im Dorf$65Sign up
1898 Uncle Ludwig Maier$16.7kSign up
1898 Sägemühle in Falkau$179Sign up

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1900s 14 works

Sold: 10 of 14
Median: $186Sign up
Average: $2.5kSign up
Typical size: 11.5 × 12 in (29 × 31 cm)
Mediums: Etching (5), Lithograph (4), Drawing (3)
Subjects: Landscapes (1)

1900 "Saturn"$142Sign up
1900 Schwarzwaldbach$20.9kSign up
c. 1900 Hirte und FlötenspielerUnsold
1900 Landschaft mit pflügendem BauerUnsold
1901 "Schwarzwaldhof"Unsold
1901 "Feierabend"$104Sign up
1901 "Sämann"$55Sign up
1901 "Sämann"$101Sign up
1902 Beginnender Regen$79Sign up
1904 Idyll II (Kinderlied II) mit 3 Bäumchen$230Sign up
1906 Hirtenfamilie$2.9kSign up
1907 Rapallo$339Sign up

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1907 RapalloUnsold
1909 Wundervögel III$230Sign up

1910s 17 works

Sold: 16 of 17
Median: $280Sign up
Average: $10.9kSign up
Typical size: 11 × 9.5 in (29 × 25 cm)
Mediums: Etching (8), Oil (6), Drawing (2)
Subjects: Landscapes (1)

1910 Pferdegespann im BerglandUnsold
1913 "Meereserwecken"$10.4kSign up
1913 "Bernauer Hirten"$129Sign up
1913 "Die junge Donau"$67Sign up
1913 Junge Frau mit Katze$280Sign up
1915 Glücklicher Sommertag in Marxzell$53.2kSign up
1916 Abend in der Schweiz II$27.4kSign up
1916 Sonnenuntergang am Oberrhein$18.2kSign up
1916 Gralsburg$80Sign up
1917 Schneewittchen und die sieben Zwerge$70Sign up
1917 Wundervögel$38.3kSign up
1917 Schwarzwaldlandschaft$25.9kSign up

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1917 Blümlisalp$280Sign up
1918 Landscape$77Sign up
c. 1918 40 Briefverschlussmarken$65Sign up
1919 Selbstbildnis VI mit Blume$333Sign up
1919 Selbstbildnis VI mit Blume$113Sign up

1920s 3 works

Sold: 2 of 3
Median: $197Sign up
Average: $197Sign up
Typical size: 10 × 11.5 in (25 × 30 cm)
Mediums: Etching (2), Drawing (1)
Subjects: —

c. 1920 Deutscher Zeichner, Bildnis Hans Thoma im Ohrensessel (?)$248Sign up · sold 2×
c. 1920 Tritonenpaar IIIUnsold
1920 Parzival$146Sign up

Creation date not recorded

54 works have no cataloged or signed date. They are grouped here by the decade they were last sold, which says nothing about when they were made.

Undated, sold in the 2000s 10 works

Sold: 10 of 10
Median: $4.6kSign up
Average: $15.3kSign up
Typical size: 13.5 × 16 in (34 × 41 cm)
Mediums: Oil (7), Etching (2), Drawing (1)
Subjects: Landscapes (1)

sold 2003 2 Bll.: Schlafender Hirte. Lauterbrunnertal$244Sign up
sold 2003 2 Bll.: Aus der Jugendzeit (Mutter und Kinder). Die Katze (Abendfrieden)$271Sign up
sold 2007 HEIMKEHR.$17.6kSign up
sold 2007 Männerporträt$959Sign up
sold 2008 DAS WIESENTAL BEI AUFZIEHENDEM GEWITTER.$2.4kSign up
sold 2008 WEISSES SCHLOSS AM WEGESRAND.$3.7kSign up

Show 4 more (2000s)

sold 2008 BÄCHLEIN BEI BERNAU.$5.6kSign up
sold 2008 OSTERTRIPTYCHON.$78.1kSign up
sold 2009 A LATE-SUMMER DAY IN THE BLACK FOREST$29.2kSign up
sold 2009 GENOVEVA IN THE FORREST$14.6kSign up

Undated, sold in the 2010s 23 works

Sold: 20 of 23
Median: $2.5kSign up
Average: $11.5kSign up
Typical size: 13 × 13.5 in (33 × 34 cm)
Mediums: Oil (10), Etching (9), Lithograph (2)
Subjects: Landscapes (4), Rivers & marshes (1)

sold 2010 Geflügeltes Pferd mit kleinem Genius$172Sign up
sold 2010 BILDNIS EINER FRAU BILDNIS EINES KNABEN$4.5kSign up
sold 2012 Die Berge von Carrara$5.3kSign up
sold 2012 LANDSCAPE IN THE BLACK FOREST$34.7kSign up
sold 2013 Selbstbildnis II$205Sign up
sold 2013 Am Gardasee$133Sign up

Show 6 more (2010s)

sold 2013 TREE STUDY FROM THE BLACK FOREST$2.5kSign up
sold 2013 Selbstbildnis II$105Sign up
sold 2013 Gralsburg$118Sign up
sold 2016 A Summer Landscape in the Black Forest$27.7kSign up
sold 2016 Spring Melody$45.9kSign up
sold 2016 On the Banks of the River Main near the Gerbermühle$44.5kSign up

…and 11 more works from this group in the full results list.

Undated, sold in the 2020s 21 works

Sold: 14 of 21
Median: $213Sign up
Average: $6.1kSign up
Typical size: 14 × 14 in (35 × 35 cm)
Mediums: Etching (6), Oil (5), Lithograph (5)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (1)

sold 2020 LETNIE POPOŁUDNIEUnsold
sold 2020 "Waldshut am Rhein"Unsold
sold 2020 „Rheinfelden am Rhein“$261Sign up
sold 2020 Apollo and Marsyas$32.5kSign up
sold 2020 Ja warum soll denn das herzige Kind die Zuckerdose nicht haben?$142Sign up
sold 2020 "Hüter der Täler"$437Sign up

Show 6 more (2020s)

sold 2020 Der Geiger$165Sign up
sold 2021 Idyll II (Kinderlied II)Unsold
sold 2021 Wiese mit zwei großen Bäumen$30.5kSign up · sold 2×
sold 2021 Weltungeheuer$73Sign up
sold 2022 The Swan$17.2kSign up
sold 2022 Idyll II (Kinderlied II)$55Sign up

…and 9 more works from this group in the full results list.

Medians and averages count sold works only (each work's most recent sale), in US dollars at the sale-date rate. Works cataloged as “attributed to”, “circle of” or similar are left out. All Hans Thoma auction results →