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Biography of Carl Faberge
Name: Carl Faberge
Birth Date: May 30, 1846
Death Date: September 24, 1920
Place of Birth: St. Petersburg, Russia
Nationality: Russian
Gender: Male
Occupations: jewelry designer
Carl Faberge
Best known for the "Faberge Easter Eggs" he designed for the Russian royal family, Carl Faberge (1846-1920) was the jeweler and designer of choice for royalty, dignitaries, and the wealthy around the world, from the late 1800s until the Russian Revolution of 1917.Peter Carl Faberge (Karl Gustavovich in Russian) was born on May 30, 1846, in St. Petersburg, Russia. He was the older of two sons of Gustav and Charlotte (Jungstedt) Faberge. His mother was the daughter of a Danish painter, and his father was a jeweler and goldsmith. As noted on the Imperial Court, Inc. website, tradition at that time dictated that young Carl, as the older son, would follow in his father's footsteps and become a jeweler and goldsmith.Young Faberge began his education at St. Anne's Gymnasium, the German school in St. Petersburg. When he was 18, his father, wanting him to have excellent training for his career, sent him out …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…their design that his fame spread throughout the world." The website concluded, "Peter Carl Faberge became a legend in his own time." Further Reading Clarke, William, The Lost Fortune of the Tsars, St. Martin's Press, 1994.Oxford Illustrated Encyclopedia of The Arts, Oxford University Press, 1990.Perry, John Curtis and Constantine Pleshakov, The Flight of the Romanovs, Basic Books, 1999.Snowman, A. Kenneth, Carl Faberge-Goldsmith to the Imperial Court of Russia, The Viking Press, 1979.von Solodkoff, Alexander, The Art of Carl Faberge, Crown Publishers, Inc., 1988.Biography, February 2000, pp. 94-97.The Magazine Antiques, March 1996, p. 446(10).School Arts, November 1999, p. 44.Time, May 2, 1983, p. 68."Faberge--Workmaster Victor Mayer," The Official Faberge Website, www.faberge.de/ (December 16, 2000).Faberge Eggs, http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue.4819.feintro.html (December 16, 2000)."The Faberge Experience: Art and History," The Faberge Experience, http://users.vnet.net/schulman/Faberge/bio.html (December 16, 2000.)"History of Faberge," Imperial Court, Inc. website, http://www.imperialcourt.com (December 16, 2000.).
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