Michail Clodt von Juergensburg
Baron Michail Konstantinowitsch Clodt von Jürgensburg ( Russian Михаил Константинович Клодт фон Юргенсбург ; * December 30, 1832 jul. / 11 January 1833 greg. In Saint Petersburg ; † 16 May jul. / May 29, 1902 ) was greg a Russian landscape painter, member of the Peredwischniki group.
Life
He was the son of the general of the artillery and amateur wood engraver Konstantin Clodt and cousin of the sculptor Peter Clodt . He came from the Baltic German noble family Clodt von Jürgensburg .
As a youth he learned drawing in the cadet corps from Ivan Chrutski, who recognized his talent.
1851-1858 he studied painting at the Petersburg Art Academy . For the pictures he painted while he was still a student, he received two gold medals and a three-year scholarship in Switzerland and France, but returned to Saint Petersburg after just one year.
In 1861 he was awarded the title of Academician for his landscapes with views of Western Europe. In the same year he began his study tour through Russia.
In 1870 Michail Clodt was one of the founders of the Peredwischniki group. From 1873 to 1886 he was a professor at the Petersburg Art Academy. In 1879 he left the Peredwischniki group because of a dispute with Archip Ivanovich Kuindschi . In the last years of his life he had to stop painting because of a progressive eye disease.
Michail Clodt's painting was dedicated to the landscape of Russia since 1863. On his travels through the Orlov , Tula and Smolensk governorates , numerous lyrical landscapes were created. His painting “On the plowed through field” (1872) is considered a model for Russian landscape painting of this era.
gallery
Path in autumn, 1863
In the plowed field, 1872
Evening mood, 1874
Distant forest at noon, 1878
Cows drinking, 1879
literature
- Wilhelm Neumann : Clodt v. Jürgensburg, Michael (I) Konstantinowitsch . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 7 : Cioffi – Cousyns . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 111 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
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| SURNAME | Clodt von Juergensburg, Michail |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Clodt von Jürgensburg, Michail Konstantinowitsch (full name); Klodt, Mikhail; Клодт, Михаил Константинович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian landscape painter, member of the Peredwischniki group |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 11, 1833 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 29, 1902 |
| Place of death | St. Petersburg |