Alma Theresia Pihl-Klee (15 November 1888 in

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– 15 July 1976 in

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) was one of the two female designers at Fabergé and one of the best known female

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s. She was the daughter of Finnish goldsmith (1860–1897), granddaughter of Fabergé head jeweler,

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and the niece of Fabergé jewelry designer Hilma Alina Holmström (1875–1936) and sister of jeweler and goldsmith Oskar Woldemar Pihl. As a self-trained designer, she started to work for Fabergé in 1909. She designed the famous Winter Easter Egg in 1913 and Mosaic Easter Egg in 1914, which now belongs to the collection of the UK Monarch in

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, and also many pieces of fine jewelry of which the most famous is a collection of snowflake jewelry designed for

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. Pihl moved to Finland due to the

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(1917–1923). Finland was part of the Russian Empire until the revolution, as the

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References

Literature

* Bainbridge, H. C.: ''Peter Carl Fabergé: Goldsmith and Jeweller to the Russian Imperial Court''. 1966. * Hill, Gerard & Smorodinova G. G. & Ulyanova, B. L.: ''Fabergé and the Russian master Goldsmiths''. 2008. * Paro, Maj-Britt: ''Tant Almas hemlighet: Fabergékonstnären Alma Pihl.'' unt Alma's Secret. Fabergé Artist Alma Pihl./ Biography in Swedish.Helsingfors: Tore och Herdis Modeens stiftelse, 2012. * Seppälä, Anu: ''Jääkukkia keisarinnalle: Alma Pihlin uskomaton elämä.'' ce Flowers for the Empress. The Unbelievable Life of Alma Pihl. / Biography in Finnish.Helsinki: Ajatus Kirjat, 2003. * Tillander-Godenhielm, Ulla: ''Fabergén suomalaiset mestarit'' abergé's Finnish masters Helsinki: Tammi, 2011.
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