Forest Interior
Julius von Klever (Tartu 1850 - St. Petersburg 1924)
Lot-No. 470
Oil/paper, 33 x 24 cm, lo. le. cyrillic signed. Ju. Klever, min. dam., matted. - Estonian landscape painter. K. studied at the St. Petersburg academy since 1867 under M. Clodt and M. N. Worobjew and was repeatedly awarded prizes already as student. He became professor at the St. Petersburg academy in 1881 and was ennobled in 1893. He xhibited at all major exhibitions in Europe where he was considered to be the most important Russian landscape painter and the main exponent of the 'paysage intime' in Russia, depicting with unrivalled virtuosity the melancolical beauty of the Baltic coasts and of the Russian woods. Mus.: Moskau (Tretyakov Gall.), St. Petersburg (Russ. Mus.), Tartu a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit.
Julius von Klever: Forest Interior
Julius von Klever (Tartu 1850 - St. Petersburg 1924)
Forest Interior
Lot-No. 470
Oil/paper, 33 x 24 cm, lo. le. cyrillic signed. Ju. Klever, min. dam., matted. - Estonian landscape painter. K. studied at the St. Petersburg academy since 1867 under M. Clodt and M. N. Worobjew and was repeatedly awarded prizes already as student. He became professor at the St. Petersburg academy in 1881 and was ennobled in 1893. He xhibited at all major exhibitions in Europe where he was considered to be the most important Russian landscape painter and the main exponent of the 'paysage intime' in Russia, depicting with unrivalled virtuosity the melancolical beauty of the Baltic coasts and of the Russian woods. Mus.: Moskau (Tretyakov Gall.), St. Petersburg (Russ. Mus.), Tartu a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit.
