Karl Yens Explained

Karl Yens (January 11, 1868 – 1945), also Karl Jens was a German-American who was noted for both plein-air paintings of the California impressionist^[1] movement as well as Modernism.^[2]

Yens was born Karl Julius Heinrich Jens was born in Altona, Hamburg, Germany and trained in art with Max Koch in Berlin and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens in Paris.^[3] He emigrated to the U.S. and settled in Laguna Beach, California in 1910.^[4] He was a founding member of the California Water Color Society and a member of the Modern Art Society.

List of paintings

• America The Beautiful (1918)
• Arch Beach Tavern
• Dawn, Laguna Beach (1931)
• First Art Gallery, Laguna (1920)
• Fun With Breakers
• In The Garden
• In Yosemite (1919)
• Diogenes, A.K.A. Mr. Mann - The Useful Citizen (1920)
• Nature's Charm
• Study in White (1924)
• Weaver's Camp, Yosemite (1919)
• Woman on Horseback in Yosemite (1919)
• Yosemite Scene (1919)
• Their Castle (1921)

Notes and References

1. News: Impressions of California, Wild and Beautiful. Genocchio. Benjamin. August 29, 2008. New York Times. WE10. 18 November 2012.
2. Book: Landauer. Susan. Gerdts. William H.. Trenton. Patricia. The Not-So-Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture. November 10, 2003. University of California Press. 978-0520239388. 209.
3. Book: Merrill, Peter C.. German Immigrant Artists in America: A Biographical Dictionary. 1997. Scarecrow Press. 0-8108-3266-6. 301.
4. News: Laguna--Habitat of World-Famed Artists. Robinson. W. W.. August 26, 1923. Los Angeles Times. X14. 18 November 2012.