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.^[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