About Hedwig Thun
Lived 1892 – 1969 (aged 76–77). Hedwig Thun was a German painter.
Hedwig Thun (1892 – 1969) was a German painter and writer. She studied at the Bauhaus Dessau where her teachers included Wassily Kandinsky.
In 2022 her work was the subject of a retrospective at Kunstforum Hermann Stenner entitled Hedwig Thun-Vom Bauhaus zum Informel. Eine Wiederentdeckung (From Bauhaus to Informel. A rediscovery).
In 2023 her work was included in the exhibition Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-1970 at the Whitechapel Gallery in London.
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Who was Hedwig Thun?
German painter and writer
When was Hedwig Thun born?
Hedwig Thun was born in 1892 in Detmold.
When did Hedwig Thun die?
Hedwig Thun died in 1969 in Detmold.
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Hedwig Thun was a painter.
What nationality was Hedwig Thun?
Hedwig Thun was German.
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