Julius von Klever: A Baltic German Visionary of Winter Landscapes Julius Sergius von Klever (31 January 1850 – 24 December 1924) was a Russian and Soviet landscape painter of Baltic German descent. His artistic journey began amidst the intellectual ferment of late 19th-century Russia, shaped by familial influences—his father, a chemist specializing in pharmacology at the Veterinary Institute—and nurtured by early instruction from Kons…