Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg (1805 - 1867)

Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg

Peter Jakob Freiherr Clodt von Jürgensburg (Russian: Пётр Карлович Клодт фон Юргенсбург) was a German-born Russian sculptor of the first half of the 19th century. He is known as one of the greatest masters of monumental and animalistic sculpture of his time.

Peter Сlodt gained European fame by creating the bronze ensemble "Taming Horses" for the Anichkov Bridge in St. Petersburg. Copies of these sculptures were then installed at the royal palaces in Berlin and Naples. The master was also the author of high reliefs on religious themes for St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg, bas-reliefs for the St. George Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow and for the monument to Prince Vladimir in Kiev, as well as monuments to prominent people of Russia. Clodt also created small groups and statuettes, including those of a genre character.