Karl Yens

Karl Yens (January 11, 1868 – 1945), also Karl Jens was a German-American who was noted for both plein-air paintings of the California impressionist motion as without difficulty as Modernism.

Yens was born Karl Julius Heinrich Jens was born in Altona, Hamburg, Germany and trained in art taking into account Max Koch in Berlin and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens in Paris. He emigrated to the U.S. and approved in Laguna Beach, California in 1910. He was a founding zealot of the California Water Color Society and a zealot of the Modern Art Society.