Gerhard von Kügelgen

Gerhard von Kügelgen

Atelier of the painter Gerhard von Kügelgen (painting by Georg Friedrich Kersting )

Franz Gerhard von Kügelgen (born February 6, 1772 in Bacharach am Rhein, † March 27, 1820 in Dresden ) was a German portrait and history painter, professor at the Art Academy in Dresden , member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin and member of the Imperial Russian Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg .

Live and act

After high school in Bonn , which he spent from 1786 to 1789 together with his twin brother Karl von Kügelgen , Gerhard von Kügelgen went to Januarius Zick in Koblenz to learn painting. From 1791 he was back in Bonn, where he made portraits of Elector Maximilian Franz of Austria , Archbishop of Cologne Ferdinand August von Spiegel zum Desenberg and Canstein and Count Waldstein. Then he went on a scholarship from Cologne Elector Maximilian Franz of Austria together with his twin brother to Rome and in 1795 via Munich to Riga. In 1800 Kügelgen married Helene Marie Zoege von Manteuffel from Eigstfer in Livonia, one of his pupils whom he had met in Reval in 1798 . Her eldest son Wilhelm von Kügelgen , also a portrait and history painter, has become known as the author of the much-read “Memories of an Old Man”. He was born in St. Petersburg in 1802. An older sister Maria, born in St. Petersburg in 1801, died shortly before Wilhelm was born. It was followed by Gerhard (1806–1884) and Adelheid (1808–1874).

The Kügelgenhaus (town house) was called "God's blessing" and was a meeting place in Dresden for artists and personalities of the early romantic period; Today the Kügelgenhaus is located there - Museum of Dresden Romanticism . Kügelgen was the teacher and friend of the painter Caspar David Friedrich .

Gerhard von Kügelgen was killed in the evening on the way from his studio in Loschwitz to Dresden on Bautzner Strasse by a robbery, the soldier Johann Gottfried Kaltofen. Franz Gerhard von Kügelgen found his final resting place in the Old Catholic Cemetery in Dresden.

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  Tomb of Gerhard von Kügelgens

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  Grave of the painter Gerhard von Kügelgen, Caspar David Friedrich (1822)

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  House of God / Kügelgenhaus on the main street in Dresden

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  Gerhard von Kügelgen: Portrait of Friedrich Schiller

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  Gerhard von Kügelgen: Allegory of Mourning, 1815, German Historical Museum Berlin

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  Memorial plaque at the site of the murder of G. v. Kügelgen ( Bautzner Str. Corner of Oberkiesweg / Körnerweg , Radeberger Vorstadt ); Location: 51 ° 3 '59.69 "  N , 13 ° 46' 19.52"  O

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  The siblings Princess Luise and Prince Albrecht of Prussia, oil painting (around 1817)

Works

• Portraits of Carl Ludwig Fernow , Caspar David Friedrich , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Johann Gottfried Herder , Georg Friedrich Kersting , Theodor Körner , August von Kotzebue , Hermann von Pückler-Muskau , Friedrich Schiller , Gotthilf Heinrich Schubert , Adolf Senff , Johann Gottfried Seume , Ludwig Uhland , Zacharias Werner , Christoph Martin Wieland , Karl Morgenstern and many other writers, artists and scientists of his time
• Portraits of the Russian Imperial Family
• History pictures
• Allegories

literature

• Carl Clauß:  Kügelgen, Gerhard von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, pp. 305-307.
• Leo von Kügelgen : Gerhard von Kügelgen. A painter's life around 1800 and the other seven artists in the family . Belser, Stuttgart 1924.
• Gerhard von Kügelgen (1772-1820). Painter friend and art companion of Caspar David Friedrich in Dresden. Special issue of the Dresdner Kunstblätter. 46th year Galerie Neue Meister Dresden 2002.
• Dorothee von Hellermann: Gerhard von Kügelgen (1772-1820). The graphic and painterly work . Reimer, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-496-01229-3 (catalog raisonné).
• Bernt von Kügelgen:  Kügelgen, Gerhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 184 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Wilhelm von Kügelgen: childhood memories of an old man . Edited by Philipp von Nathusius . W. Hertz , Berlin 1870 (most recently with Koehler and Amelang, Munich and Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-7338-0153-9 ).
• Karl-Ernst Linz: The Bacharach painter twins Gerhard and Karl von Kügelgen . Association for the History of the City of Bacharach and the Viertäler e. V., Bacharach 1997, ISBN 3-928022-63-6 .
• GH Mostar, RA Stemmle: The death of the painter. The fall of the painter Kügelgen . In: The Infernal Machines of Dandy Keith. The case of the explosives bomber Thomas Keith and 5 other criminal cases . In the Justitia series - sensational criminal cases. Goldmann, Munich 1967, p. 89.
• Hans Schöner: Gerhard von Kügelgen. Life and work . Self-published, Mönkeberg 1982.
• Friedrich Christian August Hasse : The life of Gerhards von Kügelgen . FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1824 ( digitized ).
• Gerd-Helge Vogel : Paintings and drawings by the brothers Gerhard von Kügelgen (1772–1820) and Karl von Kügelgen (1772–1832) from the collections of the museums in Tallinn, Tartu and Leningrad. Catalog of the Center for Art Exhibitions in the GDR. New Berlin Gallery, Berlin 1989.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Genealogical Handbook of the Baltic Knighthoods, Part 2.1 ,: Estonia, Bd.:1 , Görlitz, 1930, p. 627
2. ^ Adelheid Maria von Kügelgen. Frank Heidermanns, accessed December 15, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Franz Gerhard von Kügelgen in the database of Find a Grave . Accessed April 10, 2020 (English).

Web links

Commons : Gerhard von Kügelgen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Gerhard von Kügelgen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by Gerhard von Kügelgen at Zeno.org .
• Kügelgen House Dresden