Oil on board, signed (lower right), 31cm x 40cm, (34cm x 42cm framed).

Kluska was a German painter and illustrator born in Berlin. He studied from 1920 at the Berlin Academy under the artist of Max Koch. In 1929, Kluska, a Protestant by birth, converted to Catholicism; which might explain his later fascination for Dante. He mainly painted nudes, male and female, but was heavily inspired by Christian motives; and from 1935, especially by Dante’s Devine Comedy. He produced numerous large format depictions of sceneries of the Devine Comedy, in particular from the parts ‘Inferno’ and ‘Purgatorium’.

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