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KLEVER, Julius Sergius von (1850-1924). Sketch fo

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1912. Oil on canvas (345 x 515 mm). Signed in Cyrillic and dated lower left. Inscribed in Cyrillic on reverse; "Finished sketch for a large painting Depth of the Forest exhibited in the autumn exhibition of the Friendship of Artists in 1915. Professor Julius Klever." Framed. Julius Sergius von Klever attended the gymnasium in Dorpat. From 1867, he studied landscape painting under Michail Klodt at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. He held his first exhibition outside Russia in 1873; in 1878 he became a member of the Imperial Academy in St. Petersburg and in 1881 a professor of landscape painting. He was known particularly for his exploration of the effects created by the light of the Russian sunsets on the vast snowy expanses of the forest in winter. The Russian woods in spring also inspired him as did beach scenes. He died in St. Petersburg in 1924.

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