From the Collection of Fedor Kempe, thence by descent.

Label to the base that reads Baron Alexander von Stiegliz. Baron Alexander von Stieglitz (Russian: Александр Людвигович Штиглиц; 1814–1884) was a Russian financier. He was the first governor of the State Bank of the Russian Empire, the predecessor organization to today's Central Bank of the Russian Federation.

In 1878 he donated funds to build a museum of applied arts for the benefit of students of the Central School of Technical Drawing, which had been established by him earlier.

The Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design (Санкт-Петербургская художественно-промышленная академия имени А. Л. Штиглица; abbreviated as СПГХПА) is the oldest school of design in Russia. It occupies a parcel of land immediately to the east of the Summer Garden in Saint Petersburg.

The female artist Klara Zeidler (1870-1951). Daughter of Fridrich Zeidler, Klara Fedorovna, was born in Vyborg, on April 25, 1870. She received her primary education at the private school of Klein in Valke 48. During her study at school she demonstrated outstanding abilities to draw, which were developed and reinforced in Central college of technical drawing of baron von Steiglitz (graduation in 1894). In 1897 Klara Zeidler was admitted as the art teacher to the Imperial educational society of noble maidens. In 1912 she was rewarded with the Mariinsky order of 2nd grade for 15 years of dutiful service, and in 1913 she received the permission “to carry on her chest the Highest pale brass medal, established in commemoration of 300 years of Romanoff’s reign”. In 1914 she was the member of the Pedagogical Council at the School of the Art Encouraging Imperial Society 51, where the director was N.K.Rerich (1874–1947). In 1917 professor Zeidler was teaching at the college of baron Stieglitz.

M.T. ValievA.F. KlebanovPrussian-Russian Zeidlers.

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