On January 31, a souvenir sheet dedicated to the 175th Birth Anniversary of painter Julius Klever was put into postal circulation

Julius Klever (1850-1924) was a Russian artist of German origin, a painter, a tutor, a master of the parlor-academic genre, an Academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1878).

Julius Klever was born on January 9 (31), 1850, in Dorpat. From childhood he showed interest for drawing and in 1867, on having graduated from the Dorpat Gymnasium, he studied in the landscape class with S. Vorobyov, and later on - with M. Klodt. He was awarded Small and Grand Silver Medals from the Academy of Arts (1870).

The painter's career developed successfully, he early gained wide fame. In 1874, six years after entering the landscape painting class, Julius Klever arranged his first one-man art show, two years later his painting Birch Forest was purchased by Emperor Alexander II. After that, the newcomer painter, who had not finished the academic course, was awarded the title of class artist of the first degree. Julius Klever often traveled with exhibitions about Europe, and his paintings were purchased by wealthy entrepreneurs, public officials and large private art galleries in Russia.

The most famous of his paintings are Winter Sunset, Winter Evening, Evening, Autumn in the Park, Sunset, and Forest Landscape.

The postage stamp provides an image of the Winter Sunset painting by Julius Klever (1891, Kaluga Fine Arts Museum); the margins of the souvenir sheet feature the artist’s portrait against the background of his art studio (a fragment of a painting by L. Alperovich, 1907, National Art Museum, Republic of Belarus).

In addition to the issue of the souvenir sheet, JSC Marka produced First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as illustrated covers for the souvenir sheet with a label and a First Day Cover with a cancel for Moscow inside; and for the second emission type: an imperforated souvenir sheet made on canvas-type design paper.


Design Artist: O. Savina.
Face value: 250 rubles.
Souvenir sheet size: 118×83 mm; stamp size in the souvenir sheet: 50×37 mm.
Quantity: 15 thousand souvenir sheets (the 1-st emission type); 3.65 thousand souvenir sheets (the 2-nd emission type*).
* To be on sale as part of an illustrated cover.

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