Gustav Paul Closs

Gustav Paul Closs (1840 – 70 ) was a German landscape painter.

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, 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

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

Sources

This article incorporates text from the article "CLOSS, Gustav" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.