Gustav Paul Closs (1840 – 1870) was a German

landscape painter Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction in painting of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a cohe ...

Life

Closs was born at

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in 1840, and received his first instructions in the

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, under

Heinrich Funk Heinrich Funk (1807–1877) was a German landscape painter. Biography Funk was born in Herford, Westphalia. He was a pupil of Johann Wilhelm Schirmer at the Düsseldorf Academy. In 1836 he settled in Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt am Main () ...

; 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

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, 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

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'', a magnificent volume entitled ''Truth and Fiction'', and ''Uhland and his Home at Tübingen'', the plates in which show the influence of Doré.

Works

His paintings included: *''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''.

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* 1840 births 1870 deaths German landscape painters Painters from Stuttgart 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart alumni {{Germany-painter-stub