Johann Adam Klein
Master of horses and battle scenes
Johann Adam Klein was a German painter and engraver. Born in Nuremberg, Germany on 24 November 1792, Klein received lessons in drawing from Georg Christoph von Bemmel. In 1805 he was apprenticed to the studio of Ambroise Gabler and afterward studied at the Art Academy in Vienna from 1811 until 1818. His study was interrupted in 1815 for a study tour to the Main, the Rhine and Hungary. In 1819 he received a grant by Prince Louis of Bavaria to visit Italy. He remained in that country until 1821 and then returned to Germany. He painted a number of battle scenes which made him celebrated throughout Germany. Klein excelled as a painter of horses and portraits. He was also an engraver of great ability and he reproduced many of his own works and also the pictures of other artists. He died in Munich in 1875.
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Master student
- Georg Christoph von Bemmel Master
- Friedrich Eduard Meyerheim Student
- Johann Nepomuk Passini Student
Fellow student
Artworks by this artist
- Austrian Peasants with a Horse and Cart, with a View of Vienna in the Distance 1816[-]1818
- View of the Alter Kranen in Würzburg 1815
- A Cart Drawn by a Brown Horse Near a Lamp Pole ca. 1815
- Ansicht von Bamberg von Süden
- Castle ruin
- View of the Rhine with Pfalzgrafenstein Castle and Kaub Seen from the South-East 1815
- Pferdestudie 1842
- View of Ehrenbreitstein Fortress 5 August 1815
- A Shady Arbor in the Valley of Gragnano 1820
- Römische Campagnoli zu Pferde fangen mit Hunden einen Stier ein 1829
- A Group of Mounted Officers ca. 1815
- Tivoli and the Roman Campagna 1820
- Bauer zu Pferde und Maultiertreiber aus der römischen Campagna
- Naples, The Horses’ Bath 1821
- Zwei gesattelte Militärpferde, an einen Pfahl gebunden
- A horse in a stable, 1859
- Riders Disembarking a Ship 1851
- Schneid- und Mahlmühle im Stickelberger Tal unweit der Wienerischen Neustadt an der ungarischen Grenze 1816
- Waitress in Munich 1818