Cella Thoma

Bonicella (Cella) Thoma née Berteneder (14 April 1858 – 23 November 1901) was a painter and wife of the painter Hans Thoma.

Life

Cella Thoma was born in Landshut or Munich. She came from a family of farmers and craftsmen and had been a model for the painter Victor Müller in his Munich studio since 1869. There she met Hans Thoma; she soon became his model and, a year later, a painting pupil. On 19 June 1877, she married Hans in Säckingen and moved into a flat with him and his mother and sister Agathe in Frankfurt/Main. As the marriage remained childless and Thoma cared for her niece Ella, they adopted her in 1878. Together, the four of them moved to Kronberg im Taunus in 1899, where Hans became a member of the Malerkolonie there. When he received a call to Karlsruhe in 1901, the flat was given up. Thoma only lived in Karlsruhe for a short time, as she succumbed to the consequences of appendicitis while travelling in Constance in the same year.

Thoma continued to devote herself to art after her marriage and was known as a flower and still life painter. On 23 November 1901, she died in Constance at the age of 43.

Works (selection)

1875: Alpine roses, oil on paper

1878: Still life with fruit and two glasses, oil on canvas, 30 × 37 cm

1880: Fruit Still Life

Still Life with Vegetables and Fruit, oil on paper on wood, 48 × 76 cm

Flowering Branches in a Handled Basket

Rose Still Life

Anemones

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