Thomas Ring (1892 - 1983)
Thomas Ring
Thomas Ring was a German astrologer, painter and poet.
Thomas Ring studied in the class of the graphic artist Emil Orlik. He was intensively involved in the emerging expressionism and abstract painting.
As a 'degenerate painter' and (from 1927) a member of the Communist Party, he and his family emigrated to Austria at the end of 1932. In 1943 and 1944 he worked at the Institute of Psychology at the University of Strasbourg during the Second World War. After Strasbourg was liberated from the Nazis by the Allies, both he and his wife were imprisoned in a French prisoner-of-war camp.
After his liberation from the camp, Thomas Ring returned to Austria in 1946. In 1952 he settled in the countryside in the Black Forest, Germany.
He took part in three exhibitions (1961 in Berlin, 1971 and 1973 in Cologne), in which he was presented as a constructivist and a member of Der Strum. In 1974, Dumont Studio Cologne held a solo exhibition with forty-seven of his works.
| Date and place of birt: | 28 november 1892, Nuremberg, Germany |
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| Date and place of death: | 24 august 1983, Schärding, Austria |
| Nationality: | Austria, Germany |
| Period of activity: | XX century |
| Specialization: | Artist, Astrologer, Graphic artist, Painter, Poet |
| Art style: | Abstract art, Abstract Expressionism, Degenerate art, Expressionism, Geometric abstraction, Post War Art |
