Constantine Kluge Art
French, Russian, 1912-2003
Constantin Kluge was a Russian-born French painter best known for his naturalistic scenes of Paris and French countryside. Kluge was born to a wealthy military family on January 29, 1912 in Riga, Latvia, which was then a large, industrial Russian port city. He spent much of his childhood and young adult life between Manchuria, Beijing, and Hong Kong, where he discovered a love for brush and ink painting. Kluge studied architecture at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris and earned his diploma in 1937. Upon graduating, he painted the city’s river banks and streets before returning to Shanghai. With the rise of Communism in China, the artist fled to Paris in 1950 and began exhibiting in French Salons. In the 1960s, Kluge's work caught the eye of American art dealer Wally Findlay, of Wally Findlay Galleries. Findlay began to represent Kluge, bringing his Parisian paintings to America and showing them in his galleries in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Kluge continued to achieve great success in his artistic career, receiving several awards and honors, and showing his works across Europe and America. He died on January 9, 2003 in Paris, France. Kluge’s works are in the collections of the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, among others.
Major exhibitions:
1951 - Salon de Paris
1961 - Salon des Artistes Francais
1961 - Wally Findlay Galleries: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles
1962 - Salon des Artistes Francais
1992 - Musée Antoine Vivenel, Compiègne, France
Awards:
1961 - Silver Medal, Salon des Artistes Francais
1961 - Salon des Artistes Francais, Taylor Foundation's Raymond Perreau Prize
1962 - Gold Medal, Salon des Artistes Francais
1990 - Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur(Biography provided by Klasiskas Makslas galerija)
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Flower market in front of the Madeleine in Paris. Oil on canvas, 54x65 cm
By Constantine Kluge
Located in Riga, LV
Flower market in front of the Madeleine in Paris. Oil on canvas, 54x65 cm
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Saint Germain-des-Prés under the snow. Oil on canvas, 60x92 cm
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Saint Germain-des-Prés under the snow. Oil on canvas, 60x92 cm
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Place Beauvau. Paris. Oil on canvas, 73, 5x92 cm
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Large Modernist Fauvist Oil Painting Constantin Kluge French Countryside Blooms
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Constantine Kluge (French 1912-2003)
Les Pommiers en Fleurs
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On the bank of Seine, 1940. Oil on canvas, 54, 5 x 73 cm
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Constantin Kluge
(1912 - 2003 )
He was born in Riga, Latvia, on January 29, 1912, in Russia..
His father was a graduate of the Polytechnic Institute of Riga and his mother a Professor of Literature. Kluge's father was drafted into the Czar's army in 1914. Then the chaos of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and the ensuing Civil War completely uprooted the family.
They moved frequently, always eastward, arriving in Manchuria in 1920. Here the little boy learned to speak Mandarin. In 1925 the émigré family moved again, this time to the French "concession" of Shanghai, where Kluge would graduate from the French Municipal High School.
By the time he was seventeen, he was a very active member of the Shanghai Art Club. At this period of his life he also took up the violin and cello, and later in Paris gave music lessons to help meet his expenses. Meanwhile, his parents had decided that pure art was not a dependable career, and so in 1931 Kluge left Shanghai for Paris to study architecture. He spent six years at the E'cole des Beaux-Arts and in 1937 graduated with the title of French Government Architect.
The years spent studying and living in the Latin Quarter of Paris had created in Kluge a strong attachment to the characteristic scenes of Paris, and, instead of returning immediately to Shanghai and his family, he stayed on in Paris for six months painting views of Paris in oils, purely to portray and preserve the scenes he so loved. The childhood years spent in the Orient had contributed to his love of painting.
His professor of Chinese had taught him, from the age of ten, a respect for the handling of the brush, and the attitude of the Orientals toward the beauties of nature drew the young artist to the depiction of beauty and away from the vogue for the ugly and sordid in painting. When Kluge returned to China, he practiced his profession of architecture for a time. But when his friends persuaded him to exhibit his paintings, the exhibitions were so successful and aroused such enthusiasm that Kluge felt that painting, his first love, could afford him a livelihood. Kluge spent the years of World War 11 in Shanghai convinced that he avoided trouble with the Japanese occupiers only because of the respect and love the Japanese people have for painting.
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