The painter Henry Daniel Thielcke represents a mystery for art historians. This talented artist, whose career took place partly in Quebec for twenty years, left many paintings as a legacy, but very little information about himself. For the ex-journalist and professor at UQAM Patrick White, his atypical story, at least what we know of it, deserved to be the subject of a vast investigation of which the publication of a book represents the culmination.
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Thielcke (1788-1874) has been living with Patrick White for quite some time. In 2007, David Karel, art historian and professor at Laval University, gave him, shortly before his death, a file on the painter’s life, in the hope that he would continue his work. His student Annie Fraser, who also died prematurely, had also developed a passion for the artist. The research of the two missing, left in plan, was used for the continuation of the things.