Klein, Peter K.

Other Events:

• 1870 Census: 1870, Buchanan, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
• 1900 Census: 1900, Menasha, Winnebago, Wisconsin, USA; ED 121 Page 13b
• 1910 Census: 1910, Fremont, Clark, Wisconsin, USA; Ed 24, page 11a
• 1920 Census: 1920, Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA; Ed 190 Pagr 07a
• 1930 Census: 1930, Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA; Ed 44-10, page 15a
• Obituary: 10 Sep 1938; Appleton Post Crescent

Notes:

1870 Census:
Mathias Klein56
Catharine Klein42
Michael Klein22
Maria A Klein19
John Klein18
Catharine Klein17
Peter Klein14
Nicholas Klein9
Mathias Klein7
Lena Klein4
Lizzie Klein1

1900 Census:
Peter Kline - 42
Annie Kline - 32
Robert Kline - 7/12
Lawrence Kline - 3/12

1910 Census:
Peter Klein - 52
Anna Klein - 42
Lorenz Klein - 10
Robert Klein - 10
Benno Klein - 6
Medard Klein - 5

1920 Census:
Peter Klein 63
Annie Klein 52
Lawrence Klein 20
Robert Klein 20
Beno Klein 16
Madard Klein 14

1930 Census:
Listed age 73, Anna 63, Lawrence 30

Obituary:
PETER KLEIN Peter Klein, 82, 1519 S. Jefferson street, died about 0 o'clock Friday evening at his home after an illness of about eight months. He was born June 29. 1856, in the town of Buchanan and had been a resident of Appleton nearly all his life. Survivors are the widow: three sons, the Rev. Robert J. Klein, Littie Chute; Lawrence Klein, Appleton: and Mcdard Klein. Chicago; three sisters, Mrs. Dora Welbes and Mrs. Wenzel Langenberg. Appleton, and Miss Elizabeth Klein, Green Bay. Funeral services will be held at 9:30 Monday morning at the Schommer Funeral home and at 10 o'clock at the Sacred Heart Catholic church. Fr. Klein, assistant pastor of St. John church. Little Chute, will be in charge. Burial will be in St. Joseph cemetery. Prayer services will be held at 8 o'clock Saturday and Sunday evenings at the funeral home. The body will be at the funeral home from this evening until the time of the funeral.
Appleton Post-Crescent | Appleton, Wisconsin | Saturday, September 10, 1938 | Page 4

Peter married Meehl, Anna 8 Feb 1898, Buchanan, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA. Anna (daughter of Muehl, Joseph and Six, Teresa) was born 18 Sep 1867, Munich, , Bayern, Germany; died 31 Jan 1954, Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA; was buried , St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery, Appleton, Wisconsin, USA. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Biography: Bio from In His Vineyard
• Religious Vows: Bef 1932; St. Francis Seminary
• Ordained: 18 Mar 1932, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA

Other Events:

• Obituary: 11 Sep 1928; Appleton Post Crescent

Notes:

Obituary:
Mrs. Peter Orth and son
Mrs. Margaret Van Vorst, Mr. and
Mrs. Max Stadler, Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Meehl and daughter Isabel,
Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Meehl, Roman
Meehl, Mr. and Mrs. Mike Meehl
attended the funeral of Benno Klein
at Appleton on Monday.
Appleton Post-Crescent | Appleton, Wisconsin | Tuesday, September 11, 1928 | Page 10

Other Events:

• Birth - Civil Record: 6 Jan 1905
• Occupation: Aft 1926, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; Painter
• Death Record - Civil: 14 Feb 2003
• Biography: Aft 2003; From Platt Fine Art
• Probate: Abt 2008

Notes:

Birth - Civil Record:
Birth Record Details
Last Name: Klein
First Name: Medard P
Day: 06
Month: January
Year: 1905
County: Outagamie
Reel: 231
Record: 648

Occupation:
Attended the Art Institute of Chicago studying under Edmund Giesber, the National Academy of Design studying under Audubon Tyler, and the Chicago Studio School of Art under the muralist John W. Norton.

Death Record - Civil:
Name: MEDARD P KLEIN SSN: 352-03-0798 Last Residence: 60626 Chica go, Cook, ILBorn: 6 Jan 1905 Last Benefit: Died: 14 Feb 2003 State (Yea r) SSN issued: IL (Before 1951 )

Biography:
Medard Klein (1905-2002):
Medard Klein, a significant non-representational artist of the 1930s and 1940s, was born in 1905 in Appleton, Wisconsin. In 1926, he moved to Chicago and attended the Art Institute of Chicago studying under Edmund Giesber, the National Academy of Design studying under Audubon Tyler, and the Chicago Studio School of Art under the muralist John W. Norton.
During his academic studies Klein focused on graphic work, but he excelled in all media and later taught himself the use of oil, watercolor, gouache and pastel, among other techniques. He was a greatly experimental artist, which led him to develop his own form of photographic printing called the "Lumiprint" in the 1940s. A Lumiprint is produced through painting onto acetate, which creates a painted negative that is exposed to photographic paper in a darkroom.
Throughout his career, Klein was interested in abstraction and non-objective images. His compositions contain geometric elements and expressive colors that evoke rhythmic movement and appeal to the senses. He was strongly influenced by classical music, and many of his images were visual interpretations of the music of Bach, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Bartok.

In the 1940s Klein began to exhibit at the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, known today as the Guggenheim Museum, one of the most important venues of non-representational painting in the United States at the time. He also exhibited his work at the Art Institute of Chicago, the San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts, the National Academy of Design, the Library of Congress, the Philadelphia Print Club and the Addison Gallery of American Art, among others. In 1948, he exhibited his work in Paris at the "Realites Nouvelles" exhibition--one of the most comprehensive surveys of non-representational art in Europe in the 1940s.

Probate:
Medard died without a will. The State of Illinois appointed an administrator (read lawyer) to disburse the estate (1/3 to the Kleins, 1/3 to the Muhl-Meehl-Muehl's + 1/3 to administration). Nicholas Klein's descendants received 1/7 of 1/3 or 1/21. Elizabeth Klein's descendants received 1/4 of 1/21 or a 1/84 share.
Some distant relatives received sums as little as $100.