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Leo von Klenze[lA´O fun klen´tsu] Pronunciation Key, 1784–1864, German architect and landscape and portrait painter. He was court architect to JErOme Bonaparte of Westphalia and to Louis I of Bavaria, for whom he built many structures in the Italian Renaissance and neo-classical styles. His chief works in Munich were the Glyptothek (1816–30), the Pinakothek, and the Odeon (1828). In 1839 he began additions to the Hermitage in St. Petersburg.
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