Gustav Paul Closs

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Gustav Paul Closs (1840 – 1870) was a German landscape painter.

Life[edit]

Closs was born at Stuttgart in 1840, and received his first instructions in the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, under Heinrich Funk; but afterwards studied in Rome, Naples, Munich, Paris, and other places. He also made a number of student-tours, especially to the Chiem-See in Bavaria, on the borders of which he died in 1870 at Prien. He produced a number of Italian views, and also published Illustrations to Wieland's Oberon, a magnificent volume entitled Truth and Fiction, and Uhland and his Home at Tübingen, the plates in which show the influence of Doré.[1]

Works[edit]

His paintings included:[1]

  • The Villa of Hadrian.
  • Road near Sorrento.
  • The Campagna near Borne.
  • Evening in the Villa Pamfili.
  • Cypresses in Tivoli.
  • Christmas Eve.
  • The Lonely Inn.
  • Autumn Night in the Park.

References[edit]

Sources[edit]

  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainBryan, Michael (1886). "Closs, Gustav". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.