The Woman in Red - Bern KLENE (1870-1930)

Large oil on canvas, representing a woman on her porch by Bern Klene

BERN KLENE

1870-1930

Gender painter, style impresionism
The artist signed his work Bern-Klene
but his real name was Bernardus Henricus Klene.
He was born in Amsterdam in 1870 and his parents were native Dutch.
He went to study in Antwerp and then later Brussels before travelling and painting across Germany, Italy and Corsica.

In 1900, Klene arrived in Paris and finally settled at Veneux les Sablons,
in the Seine et Marne region to the west of Paris, where he spent the rest of his life.