Description: Description: This Set of (5) Victorian Postcards are By "C.Klein" has Gorgeous Roses. One card is used and four are unused. Her signature is on each card. " “C. Klein,” her trademark signature, stands for Catharina Klein. She is also referred to as Catherine Klein, but that’s not a name she ever used herself. Publishers anglicized her name during World War I to avoid any disinclination against buying her work because she was a German national and enormously popular on our side of the trenches. She is sometimes wrongly referred to as “Christine.” Her signature, “C. Klein” usually accompanies her work, especially in those postcards and prints closest to the original paintings, which were in oil or gouache, an opaque watercolor. If her signature is underlined, it’s an indication of an earlier work. Klein rode the crest of chromatography at the end of the 19th and into the 20th century. Millions of copies of her paintings were made. They appeared in book illustrations, on calendars, advertisements, bookmarks, and postcards. They were put on stencils and fired onto tea cups. They were converted into patterns and embroidered onto pillow cases. Catharina Klein was born in 1861 in Eylau, East Prussia, a town now called Bagrationovsk in Kalinigrad, a part of the Russian Federation on Poland’s northeast border. (It is actually separated by the Baltic States from Mainland Russia.) Its population couldn’t have been more than 3,500 or so when she was a child, thus making her quite well acquainted with rural life and the subject matter she would so beautifully capture on canvas and paper. Catharina Klein moved to Berlin where she studied at the vocational school. In her earliest days, she exhibited at various shows and her paintings proved popular among the German nobility. Prophetically, one of her paintings was exhibited as part of the Columbia Exhibition in Chicago in 1893 when she was 32. (The Columbia Exhibition is often heralded as the catalyst of the postcard craze.) Klein became one of the most respected and popular still life painters of all time. She captured the essence of her subject matter and made it appealing on a 3 1/2-inch by 5 1/2-inch cards." Measures Approx: 5-1/2" x 3-1/2".Condition: Corners and edges are slightly worn. Free shipping in the U.S. Items are shipped out every Monday morning. Like what you see? Check out my other items! 08/2019 Nancy
Price: 47 USD
Location: San Diego, California
End Time: 2025-01-01T22:49:35.000Z
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Country/Region of Manufacture: Germany
Features: Roses
Era: Victorian
