Vito Timmel

Vito Timmel (born Viktor von Thümmel; 19 July 1886 – 1 January 1949) was an Italian painter.

Biography Viktor von Thümmel was a son of Raphael von Thümmel, a descendant of the Leipzig writer Moritz August von Thümmel, and the Countess Adele Scodellari from Friuli. Thanks to an inheritance, the family moved to Trieste, which then belonged to Austria, in 1890, where his mother founded a fashion shop in Piazza della Borsa.

From 1901 Thümmel attended the state trade school (Scuola per Capi d'Arte) in Trieste In 1905 he went to the University of Applied Arts Vienna and in 1906 to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where he came into contact with contemporary trends in painting, namely the Vienna Secession

Timmel worked as a painter, graphic artist, draftsman and decorator. In 1913 he decorated Trieste's Cinema Italia with a series of pictures, which were later transferred to the Revoltella Museum of Trieste, and painted the Theater of Monfalcone. In 2006 Calenda restaged the play, again with Herlitzka as Timmel.

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