11.01.1833 – 29.05.1902

Initially, Mikhail Konstantinovich, he entered the mountain cadet corps, but he did not like studying Mikhail, and he often missed classes. Only the drawing classes, which Ivan Fomich Khrutsky led in the corps, caused him satisfaction. His teacher also saw in his student future talent.

In 1851, 18-year-old Mikhail Klodt enrolled in the Imperial Academy of Arts, where he was enthusiastically trained in the class of M.N. Vorobyov, who taught landscape painting. In 1853, for one of his student works, he was awarded a silver medal of the second degree and became a fellowship of the Society for the Encouragement of Artists. In 1855 he was awarded a large silver medal, and in 1857 for the painting “View on Valaam Island” written in 1854 he was awarded a small gold medal, and the canvas was exhibited at an academic exhibition in 1857 and received good critical reviews. After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1858, he received the title of first-degree artist and was awarded a large gold medal.

Mikhail Klodt successfully took place as an artist who had his own view of art and recognizable handwriting. His works are characterized by realism of the image, irreproachable drawing with scrupulous elaboration of details, mastery of perspective solutions, strictness and harmony of composition, ability to “inspire” nature with the presence of a person. For him, there is an inherent thoroughness in the drawing of foreground objects and generality in distant plans and the sky with clouds. This accuracy in writing small details required a lot of effort and a lot of time to create a canvas. Achieving high accuracy, the artist sometimes had to rewrite the picture several times.

Almost nothing is known about the last years of the artist’s life. Mikhail Konstantinovich Klodt passed away on May 29, 1902.