Julian Klein von Diepold - "Farm yard"

Motif "Farm", around 1930, when Klein von Diepold lived in East Frisia and Norderney until his death.
Julian Klein von Diepold.
Landscape and portrait painter, January 25, 1868 - November 20, 1947.
Klein von Diepold was the son of the Düsseldorf painter Friedrich Emil Klein and his wife, the poet Friederika Wilhelmina Ada von Diepold, and brother of the painters Leo Klein von Diepold and Maximilian (Max) Klein von Diepold and the art writer Rudolf Klein-Diepold. He grew up in Düsseldorf in 1873, where he received his first painting lessons from his father. From 1886 he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. Hugo Crola and Peter Janssen the Elder were his teachers there.
In 1888 Klein von Diepold moved to the Academy of Antwerp, where he was a pupil of Charles Verlat and a master student of Julian De Vriendt (1842–1935). After taking drawing lessons (1888–1891), in which he worked from antique and living models, he took a sculpture class in 1890/1891. Under the guidance of De Vriendt he made his first independent paintings from 1892/1893. He undertook study trips through Belgium and France, through which he became acquainted not only with the paintings of the Flemish and early Dutch masters, but also with contemporary painting, such as the art of Vincent van Gogh, Jozef Israels, Gustave Courbet, Jean-François Millet and the Barbizon School. Since 1893 he had his own studio in Antwerp, for which the academy awarded him a prize that same year.
In 1893 he travelled to Italy. He visited the Italian Riviera and Florence, where he tried his hand at sculpture for six months before going to Paris in 1894, attracted by French Impressionism. In 1895 he returned to the Riviera. In 1896 he married the Italian Ida Bianchi, the daughter of an engineer, and moved with her to Rome. The couple had two children, a daughter Maria and a son Helmut. Between 1903 and 1914 Klein von Diepold undertook several trips and changed residence several times, for example to Antwerp and the Taunus, from where he ran a student studio in Frankfurt am Main. In 1909 he set up a studio in Berlin and in 1910 he was back on the Riviera, near Genoa. He lived there with his family until the outbreak of the First World War, which led to his moving to Berlin, becoming acquainted with the German Impressionism of Max Liebermann, Walter Leistikow, Max Slevogt and Lovis Corinth and taking part in the exhibitions between 1916 and 1918. Participation in the Free Secession.
In 1919 he accepted an invitation from the mayor of Emden, Leo Fürbringer, and discovered the landscape of East Frisia for his painting. In 1923 he lived for a year in Mansie near Westerstede. After divorcing his wife Ida, he married the East Frisian Margarethe Iderhoff in 1925. The couple, who moved to Norderney and lived there in the summer, had a son Manfred, who later became a sculptor. During the winter Klein von Diepold stayed in Berlin or Italy. The Berlin studio where most of his paintings were kept was destroyed shortly before the end of the Second World War.
Klein von Diepold painted mainly in oil, mainly landscapes, but also portraits, some still lifes and genre scenes. In addition, he painted landscapes in watercolour technique, figure and landscape studies in chalk, charcoal, sanguine or pencil, and portraits in pastel. He also made lithographs and etchings.
The East Frisian State Museum Emden owns a self-portrait and other works by Klein von Diepold.