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Urban Thiersch was born in Halle an der Saale in 1916. After his father’s death, the family moved to Potsdam. After passing his school-leaving exams in 1935, Thiersch started an apprenticeship as a stonemason in Berlin, and worked in a plaster-moulding shop. Between 1937 and 1945 he served as an officer in the German Wehrmacht. After being wounded in Russia, he was called on to serve in the Replacement Army. In 1944, he was serving as a lieutenant colonel in the reserves in Re-gensburg. In the run-up to the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler by Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg on 20 July 1944, Thiersch acted as a kind of liaison between Colonel Georg Hansen, a member of the resistance, and Stauffenberg. After the war, Thiersch studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste [Academy of Fine Arts] in Munich from 1948. In 1950 he received a French gov-ernment scholarship and spent some time in Paris and in southern France. From 1948, he was involved in the founding and management of craft workshop groups on the North Sea island of Juist. In 1955 Thiersch set up his own studio in Nymphenburg, and ten years later in Schönau near Berchtesgaden. He died in Prien am Chiemsee in 1984.
Urban Thiersch was born in Halle an der Saale in 1916. After his father’s death, the family moved to Potsdam. After passing his school-leaving exams in 1935, Thiersch started an apprenticeship as a stonemason in Berlin, and worked in a plaster-moulding shop. Between 1937 and 1945 he served as an officer in the German Wehrmacht. After being wounded in Russia, he was called on to serve in the Replacement Army. In 1944, he was serving as a lieutenant colonel in the reserves in Re-gensburg. In the run-up to the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler by Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg on 20 July 1944, Thiersch acted as a kind of liaison between Colonel Georg Hansen, a member of the resistance, and Stauffenberg. After the war, Thiersch studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste [Academy of Fine Arts] in Munich from 1948. In 1950 he received a French gov-ernment scholarship and spent some time in Paris and in southern France. From 1948, he was involved in the founding and management of craft workshop groups on the North Sea island of Juist. In 1955 Thiersch set up his own studio in Nymphenburg, and ten years later in Schönau near Berchtesgaden. He died in Prien am Chiemsee in 1984.
