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Johann Adam Klein (1792-1875) was an engraver, painter and lithographer, who was born in Nuremburg and studied at the academy in Vienna from 1811 to 1815. He subsequently worked in Vienna, Italy and various cities in southern Germany, and died in Munich. Currently somewhat underrated, he was a prolific and proficient artists, whose insights into rural life are humorous yet perceptive, and always excellently drawn. His oeuvre either depicts military scenes or, more typically as in this wagon from Wallachia, in current Rumania, scenes of peasantry - three of them are beside a camp fire here, while their five horses occupy centre stage here. As the inscription tells us, it is based on a drawing by the artist dated 1832.
Dr Mark Stocker Curator, Historical International Art February 2019