Klaus Fisch

Klaus Fish ( born June 23, 1893 in Sehlem, † November 15, 1975 in Düren ) was a German painter.

He mainly painted portraits, portraits, figural compositions and landscapes. Because of his images of the Eifel Eifel he was named painter.

Von Trier, the first stop of his artistic career, he went to the Munich Academy of Art, where he went as a master student of the Swiss Hans Wieland Bertus study visits to Italy and Switzerland. In the 1950s, the city of Düren, leaving a fish shack of Swiss settlement as a studio. For this he painted some pictures for free.

Between the two world wars, he -fed numerous exhibitions. Also, Spanish, French and American galleries and museums dedicated to him extensive exposure.

He portrayed among others, Jean Sibelius, Sven Hedin and Paul von Hindenburg.

Exhibitions, extract

• Exhibition 80th birthday at the Leopold -Hoesch Museum Duren, 1973
• Painters of the Eifel, anniversary exhibition to mark the 100th anniversary of the Eifelverein in Bad Bert Rich, 1988
• Pictures of the Eifel in the house of the guest in Heimbach, 2007