Louise Kugler

Charlotte Louise Kugler , (also Luise Kugler ), (born October 10, 1811 in Stettin , † September 6, 1884 in Bremen ) was a German painter.

biography

Kugler was the daughter of the Szczecin merchant, city councilor and consul Johann Georg Emmanuel Kugler (1777–1843) and the preacher's daughter Sophie Dorothea Eleonora, née. Sternberg (1781-1854). The art historian and writer Franz Kugler (1808-1858) and Adolph Julius Kugler (* 1804) were her brothers. The hospitable parental home was artistically diverse.
She and her brother Franz received art lessons in Szczecin. Both moved to Berlin. Here she became a student of Carl Joseph Begas , who was a professor at the Prussian Academy of the Arts . She mainly learned to portray, later she turned to illustrations and flower painting. From 1843 she lived with her mother in Berlin near her brother, who had meanwhile become a professor. A portrait album was created during this time. In 1847 the Oriental Myth was created , 15 sheets of poems and illustrations that came into the possession of the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg.

In 1849 she moved to Bremen with her mother. She then worked as a housemaid for the merchant Adolf Meyer until 1863. She then moved to live with relatives in Munich, but returned to Bremen that same year. The Spruchbuch without illustrations from 1863 was published five times.

In 1866 the album Regen und Sonnenschein, conceived in Berlin, was released, and in 1872 the work The Four Seasons . In Bremen she was close friends with the painter Amalie Murtfeldt . There is a portrait of her in the Focke Museum .

Literature, sources

• Hannelore Cyrus: Kugler, Louise (Luise) . In: Women's history (s) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .