"Ernst Thoms (November 13, 1896 – May 11, 1983) was a German painter associated with the New Objectivity.
Thoms was born in Nienburg. He apprenticed as a painter from 1911 to 1914. At the start of World War I in 1914, he entered military service. He was captured as a prisoner of war and held in England for five years ending in 1919. In 1920, Thoms studied under Fritz Burger-Mühlfeld at the School of Arts and Crafts in Hanover. He found work as a stage-set painter at the Opera House in Hanover during 1924–25.
Like the other New Objectivity artists active in Hanover, Thoms worked in a style that was unsentimental but "often reveals moods of a lyrical and fairy-tale-like nature", according to Sergiusz Michalski. In Attic (1926), Thoms presents prosaic subject matter in an undramatic way that nevertheless, with its openings into glimpsed spaces, suggests a mystery." - (en.wikipedia.org 17.01.2022)
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