Henrik Wigström

Henrik Wigström (1862 in either Ekenäs or Tammisaari, Finland – 1923) was a jeweler and goldsmith who was from 1903 head workmaster for the firm of Peter Carl Fabergé in St Petersburg.

Born in either Ekenäs or Tammisaari, Finland, Wigström was apprenticed to a local silversmith Petter Madsen. He travelled to St Petersburg and in 1884 was taken on by Michael Perchin as a journeyman, becoming his most valued assistant. When Perchin died in 1903 his workshop passed to Wigström and Fabergé appointed him head workmaster. The workshop continued to produce important commissions and some of the best examples of cigarette cases and boxes the firm ever made, in Wigström's largely neo-classical style. Many of the hardstone animals and figures, together with the flowers were produced in his workshop.

The number of craftsmen in Wigström's workshop diminished drastically with the outbreak of Worldwar I. By 1918, the Revolution forced the complete closing of the House of Fabergé. Aged 56, Wigström retreated almost empty-handed to his summer house, on Finnish territory, and died there in 1923.