Leo von Klenze BIOGRAPHY
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Leo von Klenze - Artist Info
About Leo von Klenze
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Leo Von Klenze was born in 1784 in Schladen, Germany, and died in 1864 in Munich, Germany, a painter. After his first abdication with the signing of the Treaty of Fontainebleau in April 1814, Napoleon was granted sovereignty over the Isle of Elba, where between May 1814 and February 26, 1815, he recreated a small court in his imperial residence at the town hall in Portoferraio. The painter Leo von Klenze's architectural studies took him to Italy on numerous occasions from 1806 onwards, and in 1808 he became an architect for King Jerome. Today, he remains particularly famous for the neoclassical buildings that have shaped Munich's image, notably the Glyptothek in 1830 and the Pinakothek in 1836, where he was commissioned by Lu...
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