This is Thilo Maatsch

Thilo Friedrich Maatsch (born August 13, 1900 in Braunschweig, died March 20, 1983 in Königslutter) was a German performer and an exponent of abstract art, constructivism and authentic art.

Whilst visiting exhibitions in his teens he came in touch with art. Especially the upcoming modernism affected him and his accomplish of art a lot. 18 years after his birth he founded taking into account Johannes Molzahn and Rudolf Jahns the “Gesellschaft der Freunde junger Kunst” (Society of the adorer of pubertal art) which were allied by several distinguished player as e.g. Lyonel Feininger and Paul Klee. The stasher Otto Ralfs supported this organisation and Kandinsky expected the signet. Maatsch’s circle of associates and acquaintances ranked among the aforementioned artists, László Moholy-Nagy, William Wauer and Lothar Schreyer. Kandinsky nurtured Maatsch’s capability and he admired him bearing in mind his own father. Due to financial problems it was not realizable for Maatsch to psychiatry at the Bauhaus, because of his pubescent family he afterward had to nourish. But his want for studies remained not any longer unfulfilled. Moholy-Nagy, Kandinsky and Klee acceptable him to psychotherapy in their studios. Most probably Kandinsky together like the Bauhaus figured out a entry for Maatsch to attend Bauhaus in Berlin and Weimar in his holidays (he worked as a scholarly in Königslutter) without paying fees.

In 1925 he associated the November Group and from this year onwards till 1932 he participated annually in the well-known Große Berliner Kunstausstellung. In 1927 Herwarth Walden, one of the most important discoverers and promoters of German radical art in the yet to be twentieth century, arranged for Maatsch an exhibition in his prestigious gallery “Der Sturm”. Determined by the Nazi policy his art play a part was considered as degenerated and he withered upon the vine. Maatsch’s rediscovery ensued 1966.