Juli Julievich Klever was one of the most important painters of the Romantic style at the time and was the pioneer and founder of the style "Paysage intime" in Russia. Among art connoisseurs, his landscape paintings were considered incomparable works of art. A native of the then Russian university town of Dorpat, now Tartu in Estonia, Klever was almost forgotten in his homeland after the formation of the former Soviet Union. He had become the favorite painter of the tsar's family and was therefore probably not acceptable to the founders of the communist society at that time. He was often referred to as a salon artist. Only later he was rediscovered.
The father of Juli Julievich Klever, a German-born professor at the University of Dorpat, recognized his son's talent early. So did the drawing teacher at the Dorpat Gymnasium, Konstantin von Kügelgen, who encouraged him. Initially, the young talent studied for a year in Dorpat. At the age of 20, Juli Julievich Klever received his first awards for his painting sketches "From Dorpat" and "From Tsarskoe Selo". He did not finish his subsequent studies in the class of landscape painting at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, but concentrated on his painting. Traveling through Estonia, Russia and Germany, he gained sufficient experience, studied for a year in Germany.
Meanwhile, the tsar's family Romanov counted among Juli Julievich Klever's most important patrons. For his painting "Primeval Forest on the Island of Nargen", acquired by the art connoisseur Pavel Tretyakov, the painter was awarded the professorship at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg in 1981. National exhibitions in St. Petersburg followed, as well as international exhibitions in Philadelphia, Berlin, Munich and Paris. Commissioned works also followed. For example, he painted 15 pictures for the rich landowner A.G. Kuznetsov for the design of his villa and park in Foros in the Crimea.
The artist lived lavishly and fell into gambling addiction. His creative work became paralyzed. After the painter was involved in a scandal as a witness, he moved to Germany in 1908 with his wife, the daughter of the head of the Imperial Palace Pharmacy in Tsarskoye Selo, and their four children. There he tried to gain a foothold in Berlin. But he felt that he was not sufficiently noticed. In 1915 he returned to his homeland. In Riga he taught pupils and lived in the Baltic States, Belarus, Smolensk province and St. Petersburg, where the artist died in 1924.
Today the paintings of the great landscape painter are exhibited in all major Russian museums. Some of his brilliant landscape paintings are 'Winter', 'In the Field', 'In the Evening', 'Little Red Riding Hood', 'The Erl King', 'On the Beach of Ahlbeck' or 'Walk on the Baltic Sea Beach'.
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