1800s Gustav Paul CLOSS Woodcut Reed Song, Nature & Poetry SIGNED FRAMED COA

  

Of the world's finest artists from. Gustav Paul Closs (German, 1840-70).

Schilflied (from the splendor of Nature and Poetry). Antique woodcut on wove paper after the original by Master Wood Engraver A. Image Size 9 3/8 x 13 inches. Approximately 18 x 22 inches. This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.

This is not a modern print. This woodcut is more than 125 years old. The strike is crisp and the lines are sharp. Gustav Paul Closs was a German landscape painter.

Closs was born at Stuttgart 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 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. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity and is Fully Guaranteed to be Certified as Described.

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