Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg

Born in Saint Petersburg, Klodt belonged to a distinguished family of Baltic Germans, the Clodt von Jürgensburgs.

He attended classes at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg, where his mastery in depicting horses eventually won him the rank of academician and the praise of the Emperor.

Klodt collaborated with Vasily Demut-Malinovsky on the statue of Saint Vladimir in Kiev (installed in 1853) and the statuary for the Narva Triumphal Gate.

Klodt's last significant work was a posthumous tribute to his patron, a horse statue for the equestrian Monument to Nicholas I on Saint Isaac's Square.

His son and nephew Mikhail continued the artistic traditions of the family and became notable painters of the Peredvizhniki school.

Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg
Coat of arms of the baronial Clodt von Jürgensburg family of 1714, in the Baltic Coat of arms book by Carl Arvid von Klingspor in 1882. [ 1 ]