Clover Yuliy Yulievich - landscape painter (64 works)

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Klever Julius Yulievich is a landscape painter, born in 1850. Having received a general education at the local gymnasium, in 1867 he became a student of the Imperial Academy of Arts, in the category of architecture, but soon chose landscape painting, in which his first teacher was Professor S. M. Vorobiev. Having received small and large silver medals for sketches from life, Clover left the ranks of the students of the academy and developed his talent without the help of any mentors, solely by working from life. In 1876 he acquired the title of class artist of the 1st degree, 2 years after that he was recognized as an academician (for the view of the neglected park in Marienburg, located by Mr. Tereshchenko in Kyiv) and in 1881 he was promoted to professor. The paintings of this artist are numerous. He takes the motives for them mainly from the nature of his homeland, the Baltic region, reproducing mainly either the melancholy impression of a cloudy and rainy autumn, or the effects of bright sunsets and sunrises in winter. The merit of these works is far from equal: some of them, seriously thought out and executed with a strict attitude to the task, are truly beautiful in strength, harmony and truthfulness of colors; others, painted hastily and consisting of repetitions or variations of the artist’s previous works, suffer from harshness of color and carelessness of the brush. The best period of Clover's activity can be considered the years 1875 - 85. The following should be recognized as particularly successful paintings by Clover, in addition to the above mentioned: “Forest in Autumn” (in the Tretyakov Gallery, in Moscow), “Winter” (at Baron Girard, in Reval), “Road over the Swamp” (at the heir of Botkin, in Moscow), “View of Nargen Island”, “Yellowed Leaves”, “Little Red Riding Hood in the Forest” (in the Museum of the Academy of Arts), “Swamp”, “On the Roots” and some others.