Background
Julius von Klever was born in Dorpat to Julius Klever, a lecturer of pharmacology at the veterinary institute, and Maria Magdalena née Gradecke.
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Winter
Wikidata Winter Sunset in a Spruce Forest
The Brushwood Collector
Pond with White Lilies
Village on Nargen
Julius Klever
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Klever attended grammar school in his hometown, where he was a pupil of Konstantin von Kügelgen.
Career
From 1867 to 1876, he studied painting, initially architecture, at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint St. Petersburg. In 1873 he participated in numerous expositions, e.g. in Vienna. Klever was ennobled in 1893 and lived in Riga from 1901-1904, later in Berlin and Neustrelitz.
He returned to Russia and died in Leningrad.
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Politics
After the Revolution, he began receiving support from the "Society of Artists". For the rest of his life, he taught at the Academy (under its successive new Soviet names) and at the Art and Industry Academy, where he headed the department of "monumental" painting.
Membership
In 1878 he became a member of the Saint St. Petersburg Academy and in 1881 a professor of landscape painting in the same place.
Connections
Three of his four children became painters; Maria (1878-1967) a theater artist, Julius (1882-1942) who taught at the Art and Industry Academy, and Oscar (1887-1975) a theater artist who also designed costumes.
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Political Party
Communist Party