Johann Christian Klengel
Master of idyllic landscape etchings
Johann Christian Klengel was a German etcher and painter. Klengel attended the drawing school in Dresden. His teacher was Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich. In 1790 he went to Italy and in 1802 became a professor at the Dresden Art Academy. One of his students was Karl Gottfried Traugott Faber. He painted landscapes and idyllic compositions, mostly in the morning or evening light. In 1812 he published a collection of twelve folio sheets for landscape artists under the label "Principes de dessins pour les paysages" and in 1824 a similar number of original sheets , now known as "Études de paysages"
Relationship Network
Master student
- Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich Master
- Georg Heinrich Crola Student
- Johann Christian Reinhart Student
- Johann Friedrich Morgenstern Student
Artworks by this artist (8 total)
- Hirtenszene an einem Brunnen, Schafe und Maulesel nähern sich der Tränke, an der eine Reiterin ihr Pferd tränkt
- Gruppe von zehn badenden und am Ufer lagernden Mädchen an einem Waldrand
- Ideal Landscape with a Shepherd and Cows 1770[-]1824
- Bewaldete Hügellandschaft mit antikem Rundtempel 1776
- Partial View of the Colosseum late 18th[-]early 19th century
- Mühle im Plauenschen Grund bei Dresden 1790-1810
- Portrait of Prince Alexander Mikhailovich Beloselsky And His Family In a Landscape 1790
- Landschaft mit einer Burgruine, zwei Hirten führen ihre Viehherde von rechts herbei