Mikhail Clodt

Baron Mikhail Konstantinovich Clodt of Jürgensburg ( born January 11, 1833 / December 30, 1832 in Saint Petersburg, † May 29 / June 16, 1902 ibid ) (Russian Михаил Константинович Клодт фон Юргенсбург ) was a Russian landscape painter, member of the Peredvizhniki - group.

He was the son of General of Artillery and amateur wood engraver Konstantin Clodt and cousin of the sculptor Peter Clodt. He came from the Baltic German noble family Clodt of Jürgensburg.

As a youth he learned drawing in the Corps of Cadets at Ivan Chrutski, who recognized his talent.

1851-1858 he studied painting at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. For his still painted while studying pictures he received two gold medals and a three-year scholarship stay in Switzerland and in France, but returned back already after one year to Saint Petersburg.

For his landscapes with views of Western Europe, he was in 1861 awarded the title of Academician. In the same year he began his study tour of Russia.

1870 was one of the founders of Mikhail Clodt Peredvizhniki group. 1873 to 1886 he was a professor at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. In 1879 he left the Peredvizhniki group because of a dispute with Archip Ivanovich Kuindzhi. In recent years he had to refrain from painting due to a progressive eye disease.

The painting was dedicated to Mikhail Clodts since 1863, the landscape of Russia. In his travels through the provinces Orlov, Tula and Smolensk created numerous lyrical landscapes. His painting " On the plowed field " (1872 ) is considered a model of Russian landscape painting of this period.

Gallery

In the plowed field, 1872

Evening Mood, 1874

Cows at the watering place, 1879

Volga not far from Simbirsk, 1881

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• Mikhail Clodt
• Family Clodt

• Russian painter
• German - Balt
• Noble
• Born in 1833
• Died in 1902
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