A large scale signed oil on canvas painting by the Latvian born painter Constantin Kluge - known for his French landscapes and romantic scenes of Paris. A striking painting, depicting figures and children playing in a park by the grounds of a church - somewhere in Brugge. Presented in its original carved Montparnasse frame Constantin Kluge was a Russian-born French painter best known for his naturalistic scenes of Paris and French countryside. Kluge was born to a wealthy military family on January 29, 1912 in Riga, Latvia, which was then a large, industrial Russian port city. He spent much of his childhood and young adult life between Manchuria, Beijing, and Hong Kong, where he discovered a love for brush and ink painting. Kluge studied architecture at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris and earned his diploma in 1937. Upon graduating, he painted the city’s river banks and streets before returning to Shanghai. With the rise of Communism in China, the artist fled to Paris in 1950...