Thomas Georg Driendl

Thomas Georg Driendl (2 April 1849, Munich - February 1916, Niterói) was a German-born Brazilian painter, architect, and art restorer.

[1] After the war, in 1873, he joined Grimm at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich,[2] where he enrolled in the class on antiquities.

In June 1881, again following Grimm's advice, he sailed for Brazil, where he became the South American representative of the "Institut für Religiöse Malerei".

[2] He eventually settled in Rio de Janeiro, living with Grimm and another painter from Bavaria, although he frequently travelled to São Paulo to perform his duties for the Institut.

[1] Among the many commissions he executed over the following decade may be mentioned the theater curtains at the Teatro Santa Teresa (now the Teatro João Caetano),[1] the altar at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Botafogo and restorative work at the Church of Saint Francis the Penitent.