Peter Clodt from Juergensburg

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Peter Clodt from Juergensburg
Narva Triumphal Arch, Saint Petersburg
Ivan Krylov's bronze statue in the summer garden

Baron Peter Clodt of Jürgensburg (also: Peter [Jacob] Klodt of Jürgensburg , Russian Пётр Карлович Клодт Pyotr Karlovich Klodt ) (born May 24, jul. / 5. June  1805 greg. In Saint Petersburg , † November 8 jul. / 20 . November  1867 greg. in Finland , Russian Empire ) was a Tsar I. Nicholas valued and protegierter sculptor .

Life

Coming from the respected Baltic German aristocratic family Clodt von Jürgensburg , his cousin was the painter Michail Clodt von Jürgensburg , Clodt began his career as an officer in the artillery . In his spare time he was engaged in sculpture and attended courses as a guest auditor at the St. Petersburg Academy of Art , where his mastery in depicting horses earned him academic consecrations and the praise of the Tsar. Nikolaus I put the words in his mouth that Clodt creates “more noble horses than any award-winning stallion”.

Clodt's best-known groups of horse statues, the two horse tamers , were first given in 1842 by Tsar Nicholas I to the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV , who had the two groups of figures set up on the Lustgarten terrace in front of Portal IV of the Berlin City Palace . You can find them in front of the Chamber Court building in Heinrich-von-Kleist-Park today.

In 1843 the two horse tamers were repeated for the Anitschkow Bridge in St. Petersburg, where they were not installed until 1850. They have been preserved in good condition to this day. In 1846, the King of Naples also received copies of the two horse-tamers , which have since stood in the northeast corner of the Palazzo Reale.

The bronze statue of Ivan Krylow , created between 1848 and 1855 and now in the summer garden , was also made by Clodt . It is the first monument erected in the Russian Empire in honor of a poet. Furthermore, Clodt worked together with Wassili Iwanowitsch Demut-Malinowski on the monument of Saint Vladimir in Kiev and on the statues of the Narva triumphal arch on Narver Square.

Clodt's last notable work was an obituary for his patron in the form of an equestrian statue of Nicholas I on Isaaks-Platz, which has the peculiarity of being the world's first equestrian statue to manage with only two "bases", the rear legs of the horse. Not even the Bolsheviks , who razed the monuments of the Tsarist times all over Russia, dared to destroy this unique statue.

Clodt died on November 20, 1867 at his country estate in Finland . His son and nephew continued the family's artistic tradition and became well-known painters belonging to the Peredwischniki movement.

Honors

Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg was an honorary member of the Roman Accademia di San Luca since 1852 , later also of the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin and the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In addition, on May 31, 1867, he was accepted as a foreign member of the Prussian Order Pour le Mérite for Science and the Arts .

Horse tamer (selection)

  • A horse tamer in St. Petersburg

  • Horse tamer in front of Portal IV of the Berlin Palace

  • One of the two horse tamers in Berlin's Kleistpark

  • Horse tamer in Naples , in front of the royal palace

  • In Naples

literature

Web links

Commons : Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Order Pour le Mérite for Science and the Arts. The Members of the Order, Volume I: (1842–1881). Gebr. Mann-Verlag, Berlin, 1975, p. 272 ​​( orden-pourlemerite.de PDF).
personal data
SURNAME Clodt von Juergensburg, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klodt von Juergensburg, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baltic German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1867
Place of death Grand Duchy of Finland