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|death_place = Leienkaul, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany |citizenship = British }} John Anthony Thwaites was a British art critic and author, who lived and worked in West Germany from 1946. == Biography == Thwaites studied history at the universities of Lausanne and Cambridge. 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. In 1946 he was posted from London to the British Consulate in Munich. 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. This came to a premature end in 1939 when he had to abandon his entire collection〔Thwaites' art collection remains lost, it is listed on the German (lost art database ).〕 in his then apartment in Katowice due to the German invasion of Poland. 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. 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.〔Beate Eickhoff: ''John Anthony Thwaites und die Kunstkritik der 50er Jahre.'' VDG, Weimar 2004, ISBN 3-89739-337-9〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Anthony Thwaites」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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