Friedrich Klein-Chevalier

From 1884 to 1886, he attended the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he studied with the history painter, Johann Peter Theodor Janssen, then with the architect Adolf Schill, who taught him decorative painting.

He soon received commissions for panel paintings, theater curtains and similar venues, which brought him recognition for his historical works .

A trip to New York in 1897 established his reputation as a portraitist, which resulted in numerous commissions from the nobility and upper-classes when he returned to Germany.

There, he increasingly devoted himself to painting en plein aire; making several trips to the North Sea.

The collapse of the monarchy at the end of World War I brought a decrease in commissions and a serious economic decline.