Gustav Paul Closs (1840 – 1870) was a German
landscape painter
Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent compo ...
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Life
Closs was born at
Stuttgart in 1840, and received his first instructions in the School of Arts there under
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
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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
Oberon
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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.
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Works
His paintings included:
References
Sources
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1840 births
1870 deaths
German landscape painters
Artists from Stuttgart
19th-century German painters
19th-century German male artists
German male painters
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