Alma Pihl, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alma Pihl

Finnish designer and Fabergé workmaster

Date of Birth: 15-Nov-1888

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Date of Death: 15-Jul-1976

Profession: designer, Fabergé workmaster

Nationality: Finland

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Alma Theresia Pihl-Klee (15 November 1888 in Moscow — 15 July 1976 in Helsinki) was the other one of the two female designers at Fabergé and one of the best known female Fabergé workmasters. She was the daughter of goldsmith Knut Oskar Pihl (1860—1897), granddaughter of Fabergé head jeweler August Holmström 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 H.
M.
the Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain, and also many pieces of fine jewelry of which the most famous is a collection of snowflake jewelry designed for Emanuel Nobel.