Gustav Paul Closs

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

Life

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.

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.

Sources

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, 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.