Julius Sergius von Klever worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Julius Sergius von Klever as Baltic German painter (1850-1924).
Julius Sergius von Klever was born at Tartu in 1850. His recorded nationality is Russia. He trained at Imperial Academy of Arts.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as painter, university teacher and teacher.
His recorded movement is romanticism.
An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
That the work was made in Russia shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Julius Sergius von Klever died in 1924, aged 74. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Movement: Romanticism
