“Biografie van Luite Klaver door Johan Degewij en Ingeborg Th. Leijerzapf in: 

Remark: The emphasis is on his photographic work.
 

Luite Klaver was a person with many qualities. Except painter, lithographer, plant nursery-man and photographer, he was also an inventor. During the twenties and thirties he did experiments with color photography and obtained patents concerning strip emulsions. His inventions were very promising and respected by scientists and engineers in the Netherlands, Belgium and England. His efforts were, however, made futile by the invention of the much easier to use three-layer color emulsions after the Second World War.
 

Luite Klaver was according to legend a colorful figure, an artist of the romantic type: large hat, soft shawl and a sweet-smelling cigar, an impressive person, but in the eyes of his cool contemplating daughter Clare, in the first place a non-conformative dreamer. His modest nature, his retiring disposition and his aversion to be in the limelight, have never given him some recognition. The tendency to isolate himself began at the property “De Ekelenburg” in Oldebroek, were he started a plant nursery in order to paint financially independently in the future.
His activities as a painter, photographer and inventor were motivated primarily by his fascination to image nature with all details of form and color, in which financial problems always forced him to earn money with it. Painting was his main goal in live, in particular when it became clear after the war, that his very respected innovations were not able to provide him with an income. His motivation as a painter is well illustrated in an interview by Hans Roest in Het Nieuwe Dagblad of August 13, 1955: “‘I searched always for the exciting in everything I saw’, explains the aged painter to us, when we meet him with his daughter, the well known writer Clare Lennart. ‘People consider everything around them as something very normal. They don’t see the miracle. I have always tried to lift a little bit the veil for them. I did not succeed always, but if I wanted or not - I had to insist’.”  Indeed, many of his plans did not meet succes, but no misfortune could affect his love for nature.
The majority of his paintings is in het possession of his six grandchildren. Two paintings are in the collection of the Voerman museum in Hattem.

Plant nurser

Klaver was one of the first in the Netherlands who grew gerbera’s. He also started a tomato nursery, with the expectation that this fruit will ever gets into greater demand. This project failed, because the time was still to early.

Draughtsman and Lithographer

Klaver illustrated between 1899 and 1905 six books about plants, all published by S.L. van Looy in Amsterdam. He made pen drawings and color lithographies. For the first book he worked together with draughtsman/lithographer Theodoor Willem Nieuwenhuis, the other five he illustrated by himself.