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[1] movement as well as Modernism.[2]
Yens was born Karl Julius Heinrich Jens was born in Altona, Hamburg, Germany and trained in art with Max Koch in Berlin and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens in Paris.[3] He emigrated to the U.S. and settled in Laguna Beach, California in 1910.[4] He was a founding member of the California Water Color Society and a member of the Modern Art Society.