Hans Kleiss, Linocut

Hans Kleiss (1901-1973), orientalist painter and caricaturist, was the husband of Yvonne Kleiss-Herzig, another famous orientalist painter. Austrian, he had left his native country, crossed France, then Spain, and settled in North Africa where he settled in 1952 in Sidi Slimane, the Moroccan "Little Paris" before returning to France at the end of the 1950s. He lived there from his brush and, above all, from his caricatures that he sold to his models, or which were published in the local press. Then, from the 1960s until his death, Hans Kleiss sold his works (iron or wooden objects) at La Bergerie in Vallauris. He practiced linocut wonderfully. Our work on Japanese paper is signed at the bottom right: Hans Kleiss and numbered 2/100 at the bottom left. On the top and left margins you can see old traces of gluing.