Richard Throll

Richard Throll (18 January 1880 – 12 March 1961) was a German painter and designer. The focus of his work was the design of interiors for which he also made furniture and works of art.

Life

Born in Munich, Throll studied from 1901 at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich with Rudolf von Seitz. In 1905, he designed a villa at Leonrodstraße 4 ½ in Traunstein, which is still preserved in its original state. From 1905 to 1911, he was a teacher at the Berchtesgadener Fachschule and then professor at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main. In 1912, he designed the rooms of the Budenheim Protestant parish, which were restored to their original state in 2008. In 1919, he painted the Offenbach Synagogue and also executed the stained glass windows and the Torah shrine. He also designed wine labels for the "Graphische Anstalt Wilhelm Gerstung" in Offenbach.

Throll died in Munich at the age of 81.

Further reading

* Messerer, Ernst: Richard Throll, in "Bayerischer Kunstgewerbe-Verein" (ed.): Kunst und Handwerk: Zeitschrift für Kunstgewerbe und Kunsthandwerk, volume 62 (1911–1912), page 99ff
Heidelberg historic literature

Entry in the matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich

References

19th-century German painters
19th-century German male artists
German designers
1880 births
1961 deaths
People from Munich
20th-century German painters
20th-century German male artists

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