Nico Klopp

Nico Klopp (1894–1930) was a Luxembourgish painter remembered above all for his post-impressionist paintings of scenes on the Moselle river where he lived.

[2] There he discovered not only a love for painting, but also a predilection for print-making using woodcut and linocut techniques especially.

[3] In the mid-1920s, he was among those who reacted not just against the trends of the 19th century but also against the impressionists, inspired by artists such as Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cézanne.

Together with Joseph Kutter and a group of other Luxembourg artists, he therefore broke away from the Cercle artistique de Luxembourg and became a co-founder of the Salon de la Sécession in 1927, inspired by secessionist developments in Munich, Vienna and Berlin.

Both his landscapes and his still lifes are distinctive in their bright colouring and their solid strokes which clearly bring out the main subjects.