The House Clodt von Jürgensburg (or Klodt; ) was a
Russian noble family of
Baltic German
Baltic Germans ( or , later ) are Germans, ethnic German inhabitants of the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, in what today are Estonia and Latvia. Since Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950), their resettlement in 1945 after the end ...
origin, whose members were prominent soldiers and artists.
Notable members
*Baron , (1658–1720)
*Baron
Gustaf Adolf Clodt von Jürgensburg (1692–1738), son of Johan Adolf
*
Karl Gustav Clodt von Jürgensburg (1765–1822), colonel since 1806, participant in
Patriotic War of 1812
The French invasion of Russia, also known as the Russian campaign (), the Second Polish War, and in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 (), was initiated by Napoleon with the aim of compelling the Russian Empire to comply with the continent ...
;
* (1803–1887), professor of mathematics and general, chief of drawing department of the
General Staff
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of Russian Army; son of Karl;
*
Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg
Peter Jakob Freiherr Clodt von Jürgensburg (; 5 June 1805 – 25 November 1867) was a Russian sculptor. He was well regarded by Nicholas I of Russia.
Biography
Born in Saint Petersburg, Klodt belonged to a distinguished family of Baltic Ger ...
(1805–1867), prominent Russian sculptor, son of Karl;
* (1807–1879), the first Russian
wood engraver
Wood engraving is a printmaking technique, in which an artist works an image into a block of wood. Functionally a variety of woodcut, it uses relief printing, where the artist applies ink to the face of the block and prints using relatively lo ...
, son of Karl;
* (1835–1914), Russian painter, member of
Peredvizhniki
Peredvizhniki (, ), often called The Wanderers or The Itinerants in English, were a group of Russian realism (arts), realist artists who formed an artists' cooperative in protest of academic restrictions; it evolved into the ''Society for Trave ...
; son of Peter;
*
Mikhail Konstantinovich Clodt von Jürgensburg (1832–1902); prominent realist painter; son of Konstantin;
*
Elisabeth Järnefelt
Elisabeth Järnefelt (née Clodt von Jürgensburg; 11 January 1839 – 3 February 1929) was a Finnish salonist, known as "the mother of Finnish art and culture".Biografiskt lexikon för Finland 2. Ryska tiden (2009).
Life
Elisabeth's parents w ...
(née ''Clodt von Jürgensburg'', 1839–1929); daughter of Konstantin; mother of
Arvid,
Eero
Eero is an Estonian and Finnish masculine given name (pronounced: /e:ro/). Notable people with the name include:
* Eero Aarnio (born 1932), Finnish interior designer
* Eero Aho (born 1968), Finnish actor
* Eero Akaan-Penttilä (born 1943), ...
and
Armas Järnefelt, and
Aino Sibelius
Aino Sibelius (née Järnefelt; 10 August 1871 – 8 June 1969) was the wife of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. They lived most of their 65 years of marriage at their home Ainola near Lake Tuusula, Järvenpää, Finland. They had six daughters ...
;
*
Nikolai Clodt von Jürgensburg
Nikolai Alexandrovich Clodt von Jürgensburg (, known in Russia as Nikolai Klodt, 14 October 1865 – 23 September 1918) was a Russian painter of landscape and, later in his life, theatre stage-designer. (1865–1918) painter, grandson of Peter;
* (1867–1935), painter and jeweler, grandson of Konstantin;
*
Pyotr Mikhailovich Clodt (1903–1942) painter, son of Mikhail Petrovich;
References
article ''Klodt von Jürgensburg (artists)''on rulex encyclopedia
External links
- Genealogy handbook of
Baltic nobility
The Baltic German nobility was a privileged social class in the territories of modern-day Estonia and Latvia. It existed continuously from the Northern Crusades and the medieval foundation of Terra Mariana.
Most of the nobility consisted of Bal ...
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Russian noble families
Baltic-German nobility