Kleis' Kunsthandel

Kleis' Kunsthandel was a commercial art gallery, frame shop and gilder's business in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The company was founded in 1831 when Jeppe Jensen Kleis (1804-1882) established a glazier's business and frame shop in Vesterbro.

They resided at Udenbys Vester Quarter outside Copenhagen's Western City Gate at the time of the 1840 and 1845 census- [2] In 1868, Jeppe Jensen Kleis passed the company to his son, Valdemar Kleis (1845-1918), under whose management it would later develop into one of the leading art dealers in the city.

[6] In 1893, Kleis arranged a large exhibition with young French artists with assistance from Mogens Ballin.

The artists represented on the exhibition included Vuillard, Bonnard, Sérusier, Banson, Bernard and Félix Vallotton.

The exhibition was no commercial succes, partly because the works that were sent very small to the extent that Ludvig Find described it as #almost like a stamp collection".

[7] The Vesterbrogade building was at some point expanded with a Mansard roof with a three-bay gabled wall dormer.

Kleis resided with his family in the apartment on the first floor of his Vesterbro building at the time of the 1880 and 1885 census.