Karl von Kügelgen

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Wide, wooded river landscape with a rider and beggars . Oil on canvas. 33 × 42 cm

Johann Karl Ferdinand von Kügelgen (born February 6, 1772 in Bacharach am Rhein ; † January 9, 1832 in Reval ) was a landscape and history painter , Russian court and cabinet painter in Saint Petersburg , member of the Imperial Russian Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg and member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin .

Family, environment

His twin brother Gerhard von Kügelgen worked as a portrait and history painter in Dresden . After his high school years in Bonn , which he spent together with his brother, he studied philosophy at Bonn's first university from 1789 . He enrolled together with Ludwig van Beethoven . In 1790 he went to Frankfurt and Würzburg to learn painting. Among other things, he worked in the workshop of Johann Christoph Fesel . In 1791 he and his brother received a scholarship for Rome from the Elector Maximilian Franz of Austria from Bonn . In 1796 Karl von Kügelgen moved with the musicians Andreas Romberg and Bernhard Romberg to Vienna and later to Riga.

Karl von Kügelgen married Emilie Zoege von Manteuffel in 1807 . His eldest son Konstantin von Kügelgen (1810–1880) also became a landscape painter.

Works

Landscape drawings and paintings, including from Crimea, Finland and Estonia.

literature

  • 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.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Genealogical Handbook of the Baltic Knighthoods, Part 2.1,: Estonia, Bd.:1 , Görlitz, 1930, p.627
personal data
SURNAME Kügelgen, Karl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Landscape and history painter, Russian court and cabinet painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1772
PLACE OF BIRTH Bacharach on the Rhine
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1832
Place of death Reval