Hans Thoma: The Poet of the Black Forest

Hans Thoma (1839–1924) was a celebrated German painter whose art blended realism with a quiet, lyrical romanticism. Deeply inspired by the landscapes of his native Black Forest, he filled his canvases with serene scenes of nature, myth, and everyday life, rendered with delicate color and balance.

Though trained in traditional academic style, Thoma’s work carried a sense of dreamlike simplicity that made him one of Germany’s most beloved artists at the turn of the century. His paintings evoke both the harmony of nature and the timeless beauty of rural life.

With his gentle vision and poetic touch, Hans Thoma transformed the familiar world around him into something eternal — calm, radiant, and profoundly human.

Black Forest Landscape

An Allegory of Springtime

Apollo and Marsyas

Children with a Goat Herd

Clouds with Angels

Cornfield near Oberursel

Dance of Children and Cherubs

Genoveva in the Wood Clearing

Grandmother and Granddaughter with a Basket of Vegetables

Happy Summer Day in Marxzell

Landscape at La Spezia

Landscape near Karlsruhe

Market Scene

Nymph and Faun (Twilight Magic)

Peasant Boy at the Edge of the Forest

Shepherd Girl with a Goat in the Meadow of Rolling Hills

Siesta

Solitude

Spring Melody

Spring Pasture near Bernau in the Black Forest

Spring Tale, an Allegory

Spring

St. Blasien, View of the Benedictine Abbey and Village

Summer

Sunburst over Säckingen, Black Forest

The Beekeeper

The Children’s Dance

The Gerber Mill

The Goatherd

The Holzhausen Park in Frankfurt am Main

The Rhine at Laufenburg

The Ruins of Hohenbaden Castle

The Siblings

The Spring Rest

Travel Memories of ‘Orte’ in Umbria

Tree in Autumn before Wiesental

View of a Taunus Valley

View of Holzhausen Park in Frankfurt am Main

View of Mamolsheim

Woman with Child in Hammock