26.03.1685 – 22.05.1752

Johann Alexander Thiele is a German painter and engraver. The artist was born in Erfurt. From early childhood Johann was fond of art, so five years devoted to training the apprentice in his hometown. After, in 1710, the painter moved to Arnstadt, where he married Clara Benigna. A few years later Thiele went to live in Dresden, where he studied landscape painting. Many paintings of the artist acquired Saxon Minister Henry James Fleming for his collection, it was the first patron of the master. When Fleming died, Alexander Thiele returned to Arnstadt and settled down as a court painter of the Duke, also working on orders in Braunschweig and Kassel. Johann Alexander Thiele was a respected landscape painter. He depicted in his canvases of the Czech villages of the Ore mountains, Zittau and Dresden with the August bridge, also created the first artistic views of the city of Lößnitz.

In 1741, the painter’s wife died, but after a while his wife was Sophia Dorothea, who gave birth to Johanna’s son.

Johann Alexander Thiele died in 1752 and was buried in the cemetery of Dresden. All his property and paintings were put up for auction.

Three years after the death of Thiele, art historian and collector Ludwig von Hagedorn published a biography of the painter. Also the memory of the artist immortalized his second wife Dorothea, which was published brochures and albums with prints of paintings of the painter. And only 250 years after the artist’s death in 2002 in Saxony was organized an exhibition of his paintings, which enjoyed great success.

Thiele’s son Johann Friedrich Alexander Thiele later took over the principles of his father’s composition and also became a landscape painter.