# KLODT, Mikhail Konstantinovich [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1832–1902 - Profession: painter - School: Russian ## Biography Baron Mikhail Konstantinovich Klodt von Jürgensburg, Russian painter, part of a family of artists. He was the son of Konstantin Klodt, an engraver, and nephew of Pyotr Klodt von Jürgensburg, a sculptor. He studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts under Vorobyev \(1817-1888\) from 1851 to 1858. He won a large Gold Medal from the Academy for his work, and received a scholarship for three years to study painting in France, Switzerland and Italy, but abandoned his trip a year later. On his return Klodt secured permission to use the rest of the scholarship funds to travel around Russia. Klodt was a founding member of the Peredvizhniki or 'Wanderers' movement, but its members did not completely consider him as one of their own, partially due to his enduring link with the St. Petersburg Academy: between 1871 and 1886 Klodt directed the landscape painting studio there. After voicing a particularly sharp criticism of the movement, Klodt was forced to break with Peredvizhniki. Soon he retired from the Academy as well. He died almost blind and financially broken in 1902. ## Related artworks - [Under the Birch Trees]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()