Associated American Artists. 14 1/2" by 18 1/2" framed. Hans Kleiber (1887 - 1967) was active/lived in Wyoming / Germany. Hans Kleiber is known for Etching and painting-frontier genre, landscape and animal. Hans Kleiber's own hand, from the introduction of his book Songs of Wyoming, published by the Mills Publishing Company of Sheridan, Wyoming in 1963: "My parents were natives of Northern Silesia, then a province of the Austrian Empire,and were traveling in Germany when I was born in Vogelsmuehle, near Cologne on August 24th, 1887. By profession my father was a designer of textiles, and had brought his young wife with him to see Western Europe together. However, when the families on both sides heard of my arrival, they insisted on seeing their first grandson, we returned to pay them a visit." "During our stay with them, my Father was offered a promising position in Jaegerndorf, where our families had lived for generations, and we made our home there until we decided to settle in the Unites States in April of 1900. The city of Jaegerndorf was a fair sized industrial center at the base of the Sudeten Mountains that in its lay resembled Sheridan, Wyoming, in the Bighorn country." The family first settled in Webster, Massachusetts, an important textile manufacturing town of the time. Though Kleiber drew, painted and etched wonderful images of the traditional culture of the west, the predominance of his work is landscapes and wildlife, especially as admired through his etchings.