Thomas von Nathusius (

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1866 –

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1904) was a German landscape and animal painter. The youngest son of Heinrich von Nathusius, he was grandson to

Johann Gottlob Nathusius Johann Gottlob Nathusius (April 30, 1760 – July 23, 1835) was a German industrialist. Nathusius was born in Baruth, and learned the trade of a merchant in Berlin, later joining the trading company Sengewald in Magdeburg. After the death of the ...

, nephew to

Hermann von Nathusius Hermann Engelhard von Nathusius (9 December 1809 – 29 June 1879) was a German animal breeder. Born in Magdeburg to industrialist Johann Gottlob Nathusius, Hermann von Nathusius studied the natural sciences. He took over from his father and tu ...

and first cousin to the portrait painter

Susanne von Nathusius Susanne Philippine von Nathusius (2 May 1850, in Königsborn – 30 December 1929, in Nietleben, near Halle) was a German portrait painter who worked in Halle and Paris. Biography She was the third of six children born to the biologist Wil ...

. His paintings of animals were used to illustrate a four-volume atlas of the races and forms of domesticated animals, in collaboration with his brother Simon von Nathusius.

Works

* ''Atlas der Rassen und Formen unserer Haustiere: Nach Originalzeichnungen von Tiermaler Th. von Nathusius; 1: Die Pferderassen.'' Stuttgart: Eugen Ulmer 1904 * ''Atlas der Rassen und Formen unserer Haustiere: Nach Originalzeichnungen von Tiermaler Th. von Nathusius; 2: Die Rinderassen.'' Stuttgart: Eugen Ulmer 1904 * ''Atlas der Rassen und Formen unserer Haustiere: Nach Originalzeichnungen von Tiermaler Th. von Nathusius; 3: Die Schweinerassen, die Schafrassen, die Ziegenrassen'' Stuttgart: Eugen Ulmer 1904 * ''Atlas der Rassen und Formen unserer Haustiere: Nach Originalzeichnungen von Tiermaler Th. von Nathusius; 4: Verschiedenheiten der Formen, verursacht durch Variabilität, Gebrauchszweck, Aufzucht, Alter, Geschlecht usw.'' Stuttgart: Eugen Ulmer 1906

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19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists 1866 births 1904 deaths {{germany-painter-stub