Wilhelm Klein (painter)

Wilhelm Klein , painting by Friedrich Boser 1844

Shepherdess with cattle on the bank of a mountain lake

Wilhelm Klein (born September 18, 1821 in Düsseldorf , † July 10, 1897 in Remagen ) was a German landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Klein studied at the Royal Prussian Art Academy in Düsseldorf . From 1835 to 1843 he was a student of the landscape painter Johann Wilhelm Schirmer there . He then went on several study trips. He visited different areas of Germany , Tyrol and Northern Italy as well as Switzerland , Belgium and Holland . In addition to the landscapes, he painted portraits in national costumes of the countries he visited.

Klein, Wilhelm. In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon. Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 300 ( retrobibliothek.de ).
Klein, Wilhelm. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/2, sheets 31–61: Heideck – Mayer, Louis. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1895, p. 692 ( archive.org ).
Klein, Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 20 : Kaufmann – Knilling . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927.
Saur General Artist Lexicon. Bio-bibliographical index A – Z. Volume 5: Hodunov – Laborier. 2000, p. 563.

Commons : Wilhelm Klein - Collection of images, videos and audio files

^ Portrait in the friendship gallery of individual portraits of the Düsseldorf painting students and their friends , Bettina Baumgärtel : The friendship gallery . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 2, p. 30.

^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker. In: Wend von Kalnein : The Düsseldorf School of Painting. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 145.