Gerhard von Kügelgen

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

Life

After his high school years in Bonn, he spent 1786-1789 together with his twin brother Charles of Kügelgen, Gerhard went from Kügelgen to Koblenz to learn painting. From 1791, he was again in Bonn, where he made portraits of Elector Maximilian Franz of Austria, Archbishop of Cologne Ferdinand August von Spiegel for Desenberg and Count Waldstein. He then went with a scholarship of the Elector of Cologne Maximilian Franz of Austria, together with his twin brother to Rome and 1795 via Munich to Riga. Kügelgen married in 1800 Helene Marie Zoege von Manteuffel from Reval, one of his students, whom he had met in 1798 in Munich. His eldest son William of Kügelgen, also portrait and historical painter, has become known as the author of " childhood memories of an old man." He was born in 1802 in St. Petersburg. This was followed by Gerhard (* 1806) and Adelheid (* 1808).

The Kügelgensche townhouse " God's blessing " in Dresden was the meeting place of artists and personalities of the early Romantic period; today one can see the Kügelgenhaus - Museum of Dresden romance. Kügelgen was a teacher and friend of the painter Caspar David Friedrich. Gerhard von Kügelgen was killed on the way from his studio in Loschwitz to Dresden to Bautzen the street from a murderer, the soldier Johann Gottfried cold oven. Franz Gerhard von Kügelgen found his final resting place in Dresden on the Old Catholic Cemetery.

House of God blessing / Kügelgenhaus on the main street in Dresden

Gerhard von Kügelgen: Portrait of Friedrich Schiller

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

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 Pueckler, Friedrich Schiller, God Help 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 royal family
  • History paintings
  • Allegories
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