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John Anthony Thwaites was born on 21 January, 1909 in Kensington, London, UK, is an English art critic (1909–1981). Discover John Anthony Thwaites's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

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Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 21 January, 1909
Birthday 21 January
Birthplace Kensington, London, UK
Date of death 21 November, 1981
Died Place Leienkaul, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Nationality Germany

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1909

John Anthony Thwaites (21 January 1909 – 21 November 1981) was a British art critic and author, who lived and worked in West Germany from 1946.

Thwaites studied history at the universities of Lausanne and Cambridge.

1931

From 1931 he was a member of the British Foreign Service, and worked until 1943 as a British vice-consul in Hamburg, New York, Chicago, Katowice, León (Mexico), and Panama.

1933

Thwaites worked as an art critic from 1933 onwards.

He also started collecting works by modern masters such as Paul Klee, Kandinsky, and Henry Moore.

1939

This came to a premature end in 1939 when he had to abandon his entire collection in his then apartment in Katowice due to the German invasion of Poland.

1946

In 1946 he was posted from London to the British Consulate in Munich.

1949

In 1949 he left the Foreign Service and devoted himself to establishing modern art in West Germany, lecturing, writing for a number of newspapers and giving slideshows.

He cofounded with the painter Rupprecht Geiger the group Zen 49.

As German correspondent of Art and Artists (London), of Art News and Pictures on Exhibit (New York), among others, he worked to restore German art to the international standing he felt it deserved.

1955

Living in Düsseldorf from 1955 he supported the artists of Gruppe 53 and ZERO.

In the seventies he worked as a lecturer at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and did radio broadcasts for Westdeutscher Rundfunk.

Thwaites viewed art as a mirror revealing the human experience of any epoch.

According to him true artists are those who truthfully and originally interpret that reality, in contrast with "shameless epigones" whom he believed to be just chasing after success by following trends.

His bête noire was Joseph Beuys, who was not an artist in his opinion, but a demagogue and seducer whom he eventually compared with Hitler.

As a critic Thwaites was a moralist.

1961

In 1961 he wrote in the German paper Deutsche Zeitung (Stuttgart/Köln):