Johann Bernard Klombeck (1815 - 1893)

Johann Bernard Klombeck

Johann Bernhard Klombeck was a landscape painter who belonged to the so-called Klever Romanticism. Klombeck showed his first exhibitions in his hometown of Kleve and in Nijmegen. Between 1843 and 1856 his works were shown i.a. shown at major exhibitions in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Dresden and Berlin. He found his motifs in the landscape of the Lower Rhine and the neighboring Netherlands. They were mostly romantically transfigured motifs with gnarled oaks or castle ruins as eye-catchers. Dramatic cloud formations also became his stylistic features.