Education
Kley studied "practical arts" at the Karlsruhe Akademie and finished his studies in Munich.
Kley studied "practical arts" at the Karlsruhe Akademie and finished his studies in Munich.
His early works were conventional portraits, landscapes, still lifes, city scenes and historical paintings. They proved his deep understanding of the modern machine world. The date of Kley"s death is uncertain.
Rumors initially suggested his demise in the early 1940s.
lieutenant is also suggested that Kley died on August 2, 1945. Some sources mention the time of death on February 8, 1952.
Cartoonist Joe Grant was well aware of Kley"s work and introduced his drawings to Walt Disney, who built an extensive private collection. A number of early Disney productions, notably Fantasia, reveal Kley"s inspiration.
Due to Disney"s interest and reprints by Dover Publications, Kley is still known in the United States of America, while he is nowadays little regarded in Germany.