Wintry House by a Lake
Julius von Klever (Tartu 1850 - St. Petersburg 1924)
Lot-No. 306
Oil/canvas, 24,5 x 32,5 cm, lo. le. cyrillic sign. Julius Klever. - Estonian landscape painter. K. studied at the St. Petersburg academy since 1867 under M. Clodt u. M. N. Worobjew a. was repeatedly awarded prizes already as student. He became professor at the St. Petersburg academy in 1881 a. was ennobled in 1893. He xhibited at all major exhibitions in Europe where he was considered to be the most important Russian landscape painter a. the main exponent of the 'paysage intime' in Russia, depicting with unrivalled virtuosity the melancolical beauty of the Baltic coasts a. of the Russian woods. - Mus.: Moskau (Tretyakov Gall.), St. Petersburg (Russ. Mus.), Tartu a. others. - Lit.: Boetticher, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit.
Julius von Klever: Wintry House by a Lake
Julius von Klever (Tartu 1850 - St. Petersburg 1924)
Wintry House by a Lake
Lot-No. 306
Oil/canvas, 24,5 x 32,5 cm, lo. le. cyrillic sign. Julius Klever. - Estonian landscape painter. K. studied at the St. Petersburg academy since 1867 under M. Clodt u. M. N. Worobjew a. was repeatedly awarded prizes already as student. He became professor at the St. Petersburg academy in 1881 a. was ennobled in 1893. He xhibited at all major exhibitions in Europe where he was considered to be the most important Russian landscape painter a. the main exponent of the 'paysage intime' in Russia, depicting with unrivalled virtuosity the melancolical beauty of the Baltic coasts a. of the Russian woods. - Mus.: Moskau (Tretyakov Gall.), St. Petersburg (Russ. Mus.), Tartu a. others. - Lit.: Boetticher, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit.