Max Thedy

Max Thedy (16 October 1858 – 13 August 1924 ) was a German painter, designer and engraver. He is sometimes erroneously referred to as Marc Thedy.

Biography He was born in Munich.

After 1875, he was a student at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. In 1882, aged only twenty-four, he was called to be a professor at the Grand-Ducal Saxon Art School, Weimar. Among his best known students were , Christian Rohlfs, and . In 1919, he became an instructor at the Bauhaus and, in 1921, was named a Professor there. He died in 1924 in Polling.

His works have been shown throughout Europe and the United States; most recently at exhibitions in Weimar (2002), Überlingen and Frankfurt am Main (2005).