Karl Yens Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
American, 1868-1945
Karl Yens was born in Altona, Germany, on January 11, 1868. He later studied with Max Koch in Berlin and with Benjamin Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens in Paris. He was active as a muralist in Germany and Edinburgh, Scotland, before coming to the U.S. in 1901. During the first decade in his adopted country, he fulfilled mural commissions in NYC and Washington, D.C. After settling in southern California in 1910, Yens was active in Los Angeles and Pasadena before moving to Laguna Beach in 1918. His studio still stands there on South Coast Highway near Ruby Street. Yens died there in 1945. A versatile painter, his oeuvre includes portraits, still lifes, landscapes, genre subjects and many studio figure studies. Equally facile with oil and watercolor, his work is distinguished by its bold, colorful and decorative style.
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Artist: Karl Yens
FLOWERS - Exhibited in 1997 Smithsonian Monotype Exhibition
By Karl Yens
Located in Santa Monica, CA
KARL YENS (1868 – 1945)
(FLOWERS) 1919
Color monotype signed, dated and annotated: “monotype 1919.” 17 ½” x 11 ½”
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1810s American Impressionist Karl Yens Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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1903 Rocky Landscape Of Distant Mountains
By Karl Yens
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful 1903 impressionist fragment of a California landscape by Karl Yens (1868-1945, German). Watercolor on paper, created in 1903. Presented in...
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Early 1900s American Impressionist Karl Yens Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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'Late Sunset, California', LACMA, Laguna Beach Art Association, PAFA, CWS
By Karl Yens
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Karl Yens' (American, 1868-1945) and painted circa 1920.
A fine, early 20th century watercolor landscape showing the the luminous sunset serenely reflected in a still lake with elegant, calligraphic grasses.
Painter, illustrator, etcher and muralist, Karl Yens was born in Germany and first studied with Max Koch in Berlin and, subsequently, with Benjamin-Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens in Paris. He was a successful active muralist in both Germany and Scotland before immigrating to the United States in 1901. After arriving in America, Yens continued to paint murals in New York City and Washington, D.C. before settling in Southern California where he lived and painted until his death in 1945.
Karl Yens exhibited widely and with success, including at the 1915 Panama-California International Exposition in San Diego, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, the Duquesne Club of Pittsburgh, San Diego Museum, the Orange County, California Museum, Astor Theatre in NYC and the Society of California Pioneers. He was the recipient of numerous medals and prizes and juried awards, including at the 1919 California Art Club, Laguna Beach Art...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Karl Yens Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
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