Anna Klein (painter)
Anna Klein (16 February 1883 in Nuremberg – 25 November 1941 in Kaunas) was a German landscape, animal and Genre art, genre painter. She specialized in motifs from Upper Bavaria and Tyrol (state), Tyrol and designed many utilitarian items such as labels, bookplates and postcards in addition to her canvases. A large number of her paintings may be found at the , where a retrospective was held in 2008. Biography She was born to a Jewish wine and hops merchant who had been converted to Protestantism. Anna herself became a convert to Catholicism at an early age. In 1900, she went to the artists' colony in Dachau art colony, Dachau, where she became a pupil at the private school of Hans von Hayek. After that, she studied at a private school in Karlsruhe and completed her basic studies at the Damenakademie in Munich, operated by the , an association of women artists, where her instructors were Max Feldbauer and Julius Diez. In 1906, she went to the Netherlands to work a bit more wi ...
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