Eugen Klimsch (German, 1870 - 1960) Paintings. Title - Young Gentleman and Lady Paintings. Two oil on artist board paintings. Both paintings are signed on the reverse in pencil, Eugen Klimsch in addition to being marked Frankfurt (Germany) in pencil on the leather trimmed backing. Each measures 20.75 inches high, 18 inches wide. Leather wrapped frames measure 31 inches high, 27.5 inches wide. In good condition.

From Charlesflint.com : Eugen Klimsch (1870 - 1960), father of the sculptor Fritz Klimsch, came from a family of artists in Frankfurt. He received his initial training from his father at a young age, and later attended the Hohere Gewerbeschule and the Stadelsche Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt, before moving to Munich in 1860 to train further. Klimsch returned to his home town after five years and began teaching there at the Kunstgewerbeschule. He later took over management of the Stadel’schen Malschule, but died unexpectedly just a year later. E. Ph. J. Hallenstein published an extensive biography of the artist in Die Kunst unserer Zeit. Eine Chronik des modernen Kunstlebens (vol. VII, p. 45-60), which he closed as follows: The artist had a happy home life, was loved and cherished by his many friends, admired in numerous circles and respected by everyone, until a strange and terrible twist of fate tore him from us. Klimsch was an unusually versatile painter, creating both large frescoes - as such as those made for the great hall of the Palmengarten in Frankfurt - and miniatures on vellum and ivory. He also designed dining halls for several passenger ships and worked with great success as an illustrator of children's books and of classical works such as Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit. Alongside this he also designed bank notes, menus, certificates and advertising posters. Like the great Viennese painter Hans Makart, Klimsch often refers to the works of the old masters in his panel paintings. In his oeuvre we find allusions to 17th century Netherlandish painting, the French Rococo and Empire style.

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