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KISS, THROWING A (Baiser Envoyé), Jean Baptiste Greuze, Alfred de Rothschild Collection, London. A lady, seen half-length, at a window hung with curtains, throwing a kiss with her right hand; her left holds a paper lying on the window-sill. One of the painter's best works.—Art Journal (1885), 217.
Throwing a Kiss, Jean Baptiste Greuze, Alfred de Rothschild, London
KLEIN, JOHANN ADAM, born in Nuremberg,
Nov. 24, 1792, died in Munich,
May 21, 1875. Genre, landscape, and animal
painter, studied first in Nuremberg
under J. Caspar van Bemmel and A. Gabler,
then from 1811 at the Vienna Academy;
after living in Frankfort, Vienna, Rome,
Naples, and Nuremberg, settled in Munich
in 1837. His compositions are full of life
and variety. Member of Munich Academy
in 1867. Works: On the Danube; Market
Scene; Berchtesgaden; Halt before an Inn;
Span of Oxen in Campagna (1821), Gotha
Museum; Hungarian Carters (1828), Wallachian
Freight-Wagon (1829), Animal-Tamers
before Tavern (1830), National Gallery,
Berlin; (1821), Gotha Museum; Field
Smithy, View on Bridge of Salara near Rome
(1821), Schleissheim Gallery; View on the
Tiber near Rome (1822), New Pinakothek,
Munich; Russian Freight-wagon and Cossacks,
Hunting Dog (1823), Wall Ruins,
Freight-wagon with Seven Horses (1856),
Germanic Museum, Nuremberg; Wallachian
Carters Resting on the Danube (1834-38),
Königsberg Museum;
Gypsy Camp (1856),
Kunsthalle, Hamburg.—Allgem.
d. Biogr., xvi.
95; Dioskuren (1862), 193; Illustr. Zeitg.
(1875), i. 471; Jordan (1885), ii. 117; Kunst-Chronik,
xi. 270; Regnet, i. 287.
KLEIN, JOHANN (EVANGELIST), born
in Vienna in 1823. Fresco painter, pupil
of Vienna Academy under Führich. Went
for a short time to Venice, and then studied
Byzantine and mediæval wall-paintings
in monasteries and churches in the Bukowina,
in Carinthia, Soest, Brunswick, Cracow,
and in and near Vienna. Member of,
and professor at, Vienna Academy. Works:
Wall-Paintings in Episcopal Chapel at Czernowitz
and in St. Mary's on Capitol at Cologne;
Glass Paintings in St. Antonio's,
Padua, in St. Stephen's, Vienna, in Kempten
and Elten on the Rhine, in Münster,
Bochold and Lüdinghausen, Westphalia; in
Cathedral at Linz, in Nancy, in Hungary,
etc.—Müller, 299; Wurzbach, xii. 50.
KLEIN, WILHELM, born in Düsseldorf
in 1821. Landscape painter, pupil of Düsseldorf
Academy under Schirmer; perfected
himself on journeys through various parts
of Germany, in Tyrol, Switzerland, North
Italy, Belgium, and Holland. Works: Wood
Landscape (1844); Mountainous Landscape
(1845), Brunswick Art Union; Winter Landscape,
Provinzial Museum, Hanover; Rocky
Valley (1852), Düsseldorf Art Union; Forest
Brook (1853), Königsberg Art Union; King's
Oak near Arnsberg, Inn Valley (1855); Road
to Village, Cologne Art Union; Carters' Tavern
(1858), Berlin Art Union; Lake Garda
(1858); Inn Valley (1859); View in the Engadin
(1863); Sea-Coast, Liège Art Union;
Winter in Tyrol (1865), Bremen Art Union;
Weinburg (1868); Lake Hechtsee in Bavaria;