Karl Yens
American painter
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Karl Yens (January 11, 1868 – 1945), also Karl Jens was a German-American who was noted for both plein-air paintings of the California impressionist[1] movement as well as Modernism.[2]
Yens was born Karl Julius Heinrich Jens was born in Altona, Hamburg, Germany and trained in art with Max Koch in Berlin and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens in Paris.[3] He emigrated to the U.S. and settled in Laguna Beach, California in 1910.[4] He was a founding member of the California Water Color Society and a member of the Modern Art Society.
List of paintings
- America The Beautiful (1918)
- Arch Beach Tavern
- Dawn, Laguna Beach (1931)
- First Art Gallery, Laguna (1920)
- Fun With Breakers
- In The Garden
- In Yosemite (1919)
- Diogenes, A.K.A. Mr. Mann - The Useful Citizen (1920)
- Nature's Charm
- Study in White (1924)
- Weaver's Camp, Yosemite (1919)
- Woman on Horseback in Yosemite (1919)
- Yosemite Scene (1919)
- Their Castle (1921)
