Klodt P.K., (1805-1867), sculptor

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KLODT (Klodt von Jurgensburg) Peter Karlovich (1805, St. Petersburg - 1867), Baron, sculptor, caster. Visited the Academy of Arts in 1829, achieved membership and professorship in 1838, then directorship of the casting workshop. Created monuments and mounted works, combining Classicism and spontaneity. He created six horses for the Narva Triumph Gates (copper, 1833), the four Horse Tamers at the Anichkov Bridge (bronze, installed in 1849-50), a monument to I.A. Krylov in the Summer Garden (bronze, granite, 1848-55) and one to Nicholas I at St. Isaac's Square, the Horse at Man's Service frieze for the Marble Palace (the late 1840s), and Horse at Water (wax, the State Russian Museum). He was originally buried at Smolenskoe Lutheran Cemetery, and in 1936 his ashes were carried to the Necropolis of Artists. His son, Mikhail Klodt (1834-1914), and nephew, Mikhail Konstantinovich Klodt (1832/33-1902), were painters, founders, and members of the Itinerants Fellowship.

References: Петров В. Н. Петр Карлович Клодт, 1805-1867. 2-е изд. Л., 1985; Клодт Г. А. "Лепил и отливал Петр Клодт..." М., 1989.

O. L. Leikind, D.Y. Severyukhin. Klodt Mikhail Konstantinovich
Klodt Mikhail Petrovich
Klodt von Jurgensburg Peter Karlovich
Krylov Ivan Andreevich
Nicholas I, Emperor
St.Isaac's Square/Saint Petersburg, city
Петров В. Н. Петр Карлович Клодт, 1805-1867. 2-е изд. Л., 1985
Клодт Г. А. "Лепил и отливал Петр Клодт..." М., 1989 Academy of Arts
Academy of Arts
Narva Triumphal Arch
Marble Palace
Necropolis of Artists
Travelling Art Exhibitions, Society for
1842