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Antique American impressionist landscape oil painting by Robert C. Kluth (1854 - 1921). Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Please see all images for condition. Size is measured and written on the back of the painting. The first size is the overall size, the second size is the image size. For detailed condition questions please text 617-835-2496. Artist Bio: Paintings Bought by Carnegie for Libraries and Museums.Robert Kluth, a widely known marine and landscape painter, many of whose paintings of Norwegian fjord scenes were purchased by the late Andrew Carnegie for public libraries and museums, died suddenly yesterday, of a stroke, at his residence, 4204 Avenue Q, Flatbush Gardens. He had been suffering from heart trouble for some time.Mr. Kluth was born in Germany in 1854 and came to this country when he was 7 years old. He spent his boyhood days at Fishkill-on-the Hudson, and after studying art in this country, spent several years studying under professors at Dusseldorf, Germany, and in Norway. He specialized in landscapes and marines, and had exhibited his paintings at the National Academy of Design in Manhattan, in the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts and at exhibitions in the larger cities throughout the country. Andrew Carnegie was especially fond of his Norwegian fjord scenes and was one of the first to recognize their full merit.Mr. Kluth lived in Brooklyn most of his lifetime. He was an active member of the Brooklyn Society of Artists, and a member of Ridgewood Council, No. 678, Royal Arcanum. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Frances Embree Kluth; a son, Charles R. Kluth, a realty broker of Brooklyn, and a sister, Mrs. Jerome R. Reimers of Washington, D.C.The funeral services will be held on Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock, at Mr. Kluth's late home, conducted by the Rev. Charles William Roeder, pastor of the Flatlands Dutch Reformed Church, and the Interment will follow in the Lutheran Cemetery.BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE: ART CRITIC TELLS OF KLUTH'S WORK:Robert C. Kluth, the Brooklyn artist who died suddenly at his home, 4202 Avenue Q, on Thursday, will be buried from his late residence today at 2 o'clock.Robert Kluth was born in Macklenburg-Schwerin, Germany in 1854. His parents came to America in 1861. In the early seventies he returned to Europe and studied at Dusseldorf and spent much time in Norway sketching. Before going to Europe to study he worked at lithography. Among those early lithographs is a racehorse published by Currier & Ives in 1872. Lithography, however, was considered by Mr. Kluth a mere means of attaining his end the getting together of the necessary funds for studying abroad. Interesting as his lithographs are, they have not the individuality of his later work.Mr. Kluth's paintings may be divided into three classes the landscapes which often contain sheep: the still-lifes and the interiors with figures. Many of his landscapes are of the Norway fjords from sketches, which he made there in the seventies. The sketches are very solidly painted and afforded an excellent foundation upon which to build his art.Mr. Kluth felt that the practice of painting still-lifes was an important aid to the artist's technical training. He continued painting them throughout his life, and with the past year or two he has painted canvases of the familiar bowls and jugs and fruit which have been the standard subjects of the still-life painter since the time of Chardin. The interiors with figures are true pictures of American life of today. One represents the modern kitchen with its stove and washtubs with the family at the table and the cat and kittens playing on the floor.Robert Kluth was one of the founders of the Brooklyn Society of Artists. Brooklyn has lost one of its most important painters who was not only admired for his art but also for his qualities as a man. Hamilton Easter Field.