Klever Julius von. belongs to the most popular landscape painters of salon academic art. He was born in Dorpat (Tartu), and enrolled at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in 1867. First, he studied architecture, then he turned to landscape and studied at first with Sokrat Vorobiev and then Mikhail Clodt.

Julius Klever gained great fame with spectacular paintings depicting sunsets, mysterious corners of forest wilds, and villages left behind by man. One such work is the museum’s Landscape, in which the picture of a forest corner is as unpretentious and beautiful as nature itself.