Max Thedy

Max Thedy (16 October 1858, Munich - 13 August 1924, Polling[1]) was a German painter, designer and engraver.

He was the youngest of twelve children born to Johann Valentin Thedy, a Verwaltungsaktuar (administrative assistant in the community government) and his wife, Theresia.

[1] After his parents' premature deaths, he was taken in by the family of the Hamburg painter, Georg Friedrich Louis Reinhardt (1819–1905) and encouraged to pursue a career in art.

In 1882, aged only twenty-four, he was called to be a professor at the Grand-Ducal Saxon Art School, Weimar.

[1] His works have been shown throughout Europe and the United States; most recently at exhibitions in Weimar (2002), Überlingen and Frankfurt am Main (2005).