Gustav Paul Closs, a landscape painter

Landscape art

Landscape art is a term that covers the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, and especially art where the main subject is a wide view, with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works landscape backgrounds for figures can still...

, was born at Stuttgart

Stuttgart

Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....

 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

Chiemsee

Chiemsee is a freshwater lake in Bavaria, Germany, between Rosenheim, Germany, and Salzburg, Austria. It is often called the Bavarian Sea. The rivers Tiroler Achen and Prien flow into the lake; the river Alz, out of it...

 in Bavaria

Bavaria

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, on the borders of which he died in 1870 at Prien

Prien am Chiemsee

Prien am Chiemsee is a municipality in the district of Rosenheim, in Bavaria, Germany.-Geography:It is situated on the western shore of the Chiemsee lake, 16 km east of Rosenheim.-Famous resident:...

. He produced a number of Italian views, and also published 'Illustrations to Wieland's Oberon

Oberon (poem)

Oberon is an epic poem by the German writer Christoph Martin Wieland. It was based on the epic romance Huon de Bordeaux, a French medieval tale. It first appeared in 1780 and went through seven rewrites before its final form was published in 1796...

', a magnificent volume entitled 'Truth and Fiction,' and 'Uhland and his Home at Tübingen,' the plates in which show the influence of Doré

Gustave Doré

Paul Gustave Doré was a French artist, engraver, illustrator and sculptor. Doré worked primarily with wood engraving and steel engraving.-Biography:...

. Of his paintings may be mentioned:

• 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.