Hans Thoma (1839-1924) was a German painter. He was born in Bernau in the Black Forest, Germany.
Having started life as a painter of clock-faces, he entered in 1859 the Karlsruhe academy, where he studied under Schirmer and Des Coudres.
He subsequently studied and worked, with but indifferent success, in Düsseldorf, Paris, Italy, Munich and Frankfurt, until his reputation became firmly established as the result of an exhibition of some thirty of his paintings in Munich.
He died in Karlsruhe in 1924 at the age of 85.