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 volume entitled Truth and Fiction, and Uhland and his Home at Tübingen, the plates in which show the influence of Doré.
Works His paintings included:
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
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