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(1) Eugen Johann Georg Klimsch
(b Frankfurt am Main, 29 Nov 1839; d Frankfurt am Main, 9 July 1896). Painter, printmaker and illustrator. He received his first training from his father, Ferdinand Karl Klimsch. He was a pupil at the Höheren Gewerbeschule (1852–5) and the Städelsches Kunstinstitut (1855–9), both in Frankfurt am Main, and at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich (1860–65), where he studied under Andreas Müller (1831–1901). In Munich he first produced numerous decorative graphic works, mainly patterns for such items as table place cards, diplomas and calling cards, as well as commercial art for posters and banknotes. In 1865 he settled again in Frankfurt, teaching at the Kunstgewerbeschule. He also painted frescoes and received numerous commissions to decorate with allegorical subjects various private residences, bars and cafés as well as the Grossensaal in the Palmengarten. In addition, he was engaged to decorate the steamships of the Lloyd line of Bremen. His paintings are mainly genre scenes or allegories painted in the styles of various eras: 17th-century Dutch, French Rococo (in Watteau’s manner) and French Empire. However, he achieved his most important successes as an illustrator. After the death of Ludwig Richter in 1884, Klimsch illustrated his Spinnstube (Frankfurt am Main). He also supplied a series of picture patterns for illustrating children’s literature and books of fairy tales with simple coloured prints, including Georg Lang’s Sonnenblicke aus dem Lenz des Lebens (Frankfurt am Main, 1878) and Wunderhold: Sechs heitere Märchen (Berlin, 1892), the Grimm brothers’ tales in verse by Georg Bötticher. He also prepared illustrations for editions of classics, such as Goethe’s Dichtung und Wahrheit (Stuttgart), the fifth volume of the edition of Goethe’s works published by the Deutsche Verlagsanstalt. He executed many miniature paintings on parchment, winning a first prize in Karlsruhe in 1891 for a fan in the style of Watteau and a second prize at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. He succeeded Frank Kirchbach (1859–1912) as Director of the Städelsche Malschule in 1895.
Part of the Klimsch family
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