Friedrich Kühnel

Friedrich Kühnel (self-portrait, 1840)

Friedrich Kühnel ( Russian Фёдор Фёдорович Кинель ; * 1766 , † 1841 in Moscow ) was a German - Russian painter .

Life

Friedrich Kühnel studied in Dresden from 1781–1785 with Johann Eleazar Schenau and then with Giovanni Battista Casanova . He was also mentioned as a student of Anton Raphael Mengs .

Kühnel went to Moscow in the late 1780s and worked as a drawing teacher at Moscow University . On behalf of the publisher Platon Petrowitsch Beketow , he portrayed outstanding representatives of Russian science and culture, whose portraits served as templates for graphics .

Together with Yegor Iwanowitsch Makowski and Alexander Sergejewitsch Jastrebilow, Kühnel organized a working group in 1830, which Giovanni Vitali and the brothers Alexei and Vasili Stepanowitsch Dobrowolski joined. From 1832 onwards, the district organized meetings to draw together in the house of Jastrebilov, who had studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts . It was planned to open an art class as the starting point for a Moscow art academy. They found support from the Moscow Governor General Prince Dmitri Vladimirovich Golitsyn and won sponsors . Count Mikhail Fyodorowitsch Orlow , adjutant Vladimir Jakowlewitsch Skaryatin and the historian Alexander Dmitrijewitsch Tschertkow formed the board of directors for the art class in 1833. In 1843 the Moscow Art Society was founded with the Moscow School of Painting and Sculpture on the basis of the art class.

personal data
SURNAME	Kühnel, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Кинель, Фёдор Фёдорович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Russian painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1766
PLACE OF BIRTH	Moscow
DATE OF DEATH	1841
Place of death	Moscow