Carl Blos

Carl Blos was a German portrait, landscape and genre painter.

Life and work

Blos was born in Mannheim. He began his art lessons from 1878 to 1880, at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Karlsruhe. From 1881 to 1883, he continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts there, under the direction of Karl Hoff. By 1887, he had completed his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, where his primary instructor was Wilhelm Lindenschmit. During his last two years there, he was also employed in Lindenschmit's workshop.
Blos was awarded the Academy's medal in 1884, and received a small gold medal at the Große Berliner Kunstausstellung of 1896.

Later, he became a member of the moderately progressive. In 1902, he was named a Professor at his alma mater, the Munich Academy.
In 1905, he was awarded the Großen Medaille in 1905, and the Lenbach Prize of the city of Munich in 1937. Several works of his were sold at the Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung of 1939, an exhibition meant to highlight art that was approved by the Nazi Party. Blos died in Munich in 1941.