Franz Klemmer (1879 - 1964)

Franz Klemmer

Franz Klemmer was a German painter. After leaving school, Klemmer began an apprenticeship as a church painter and, after completing his training in 1905, switched to the Munich School of Applied Arts. At the beginning of the First World War, Klemmer joined a Bavarian foot artillery regiment in 1914. Even during the war years, sketches and drawings were made that attracted a great deal of attention. After the war, Klemmer returned to Munich, where he opened his own studio and began collaborating with Carl Johann Becker-Gundahl, a professor of monumental painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Here Klemmer turned to fresco painting and received a teaching position at the Academy of Arts. In 1926, after the death of Becker-Gundahl, Klemmer was appointed his successor and received a chair in ecclesiastical painting.