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Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg
Deceased Person
1805 – 1867
Who was Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg?
Baron Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg, known in Russian as Pyotr Karlovich Klodt, was a favourite sculptor of Nicholas I of Russia.
Stemming from a distinguished family of Baltic Germans, Clodt von Jürgensburg, Klodt started his career as a professional artillery officer and amateur sculptor. He attended the classes at the Imperial Academy of Arts, where his mastery in depicting horses eventually won him the rank of academician and a praise of the tsar. As a legend has it, Nicholas I remarked to Klodt that he "creates horses finer than any prize stallion does".
Klodt's most famous group of horse sculptures, the Horse Tamers, was installed at the Anichkov Bridge in 1851. He was also responsible for the bronze statue of Ivan Krylov in the Summer Garden. It was the first monument to a poet erected in the Russian Empire.
Klodt collaborated with Vasily Demut-Malinovsky on the statue of Saint Vladimir in Kiev and the statuary for the Narva Triumphal Gate. He also sculpted a quadriga above the portico of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
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- Born
- Jun 8, 1805
Saint Petersburg - Also known as
- Peter Clodt von Jurgensburg
- Lived in
- Saint Petersburg
- Died
- Nov 20, 1867
Finland
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on July 23, 2013
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