William Kloss

This William Kloss is NOT the art historian, who is very much alive in Washington, DC on October 18, 2021!

William Kloss remains a great educator of European Art History through the Great Courses, and remains a great educator. I must thank him for his spiritual presence after life.

I just finished watching his video presentations on A History of European Art and was seeking out an email to thank him and congratulate him on a truly engaging course. I am sad that I am too late to convey this to him. I have been bragging about this course to so many people and now plan to give it to a friend who is a H.S history teacher. He appeared humble, fair and polished.
My he Rest In Peace with great joy.

I am deeply sorry to hear of Professor Kloss's passing, however belatedly. I only knew him from his Great Courses lectures and courses, but I still feel like I lost a favorite teacher and mentor. He taught me everything I know about art and opened my heart and mind to do much amazing art. Thank you, Professor Kloss, and my condolences to your family and friends.

I have recently started taking a number of the Great Courses series. My first course was "Dutch Art" taught by William Kloss, who did a masterful job of covering some of the greatest artists in Western history. He was a gentlemanly scholar of the first order, and I was surprised to see that he had passed away several years ago as I had wanted to send him an email commending him for his scholarly approach and well-delivered lectures. I am now starting another one of his courses on the...

I attended GWU in Washington, DC and was writing my Masters Thesis on Trompe L'oeil. When I began graduate school in 1984 I discovered that there was a Trompe L'oeil exhibition in my hometown of Columbus,Ohio. Since school had begun I could not go to the exhibition. I wrote and received the catalogue which was written by Bill. I saw that he worked at the Smithsonian and figured he lived nearby.
I hunted him down and we met. We became friends. Like friends in the DC area, if you talk...

Saddened to learn of Bill's passing nearly 3 years ago, but I must memorialize and remember him as we were teenagers growing up together in Newton Falls, Ohio , in Sunday School at the United Methodist Church, and attending Lakeside together as youths. He was a year behind me but we were friends through high school. Enjoyed his humor, intelligence and after graduating from high school and college we went separate ways. Along the way, I learned so much from his lecture courses on European...

Thoroughly enjoy the lectures about European art and its history that you presented in your art course.
So sad to hear about your passing
We extend our sincere condolences to your family.

I am so saddened to hear so belatedly of Bill's death. I first met Bill through the great book's courses. My wife and I have been given so much by them. In return and thanks I sent him a book of mine on Theater. Bill and I then began an email correspondence --intermittent but always deeply gratifying. I have the treasure of all his Great Books courses which I watch again and again.