Karl von Kügelgen

Charles of Kügelgen ( born February 6, 1772 in Bacharach on the Rhine; † January 9, 1832 in Tallinn ) was landscape and history painter, Russian Court and Cabinet Painters 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, community

His twin brother Gerhard von Kügelgen worked as a portraitist and history painter in Dresden. After his high school years in Bonn, which he spent with his brother, he studied from 1789 to the first Bonn University philosophy. He matriculated together with Ludwig van Beethoven. In 1790 he went to Frankfurt and Würzburg to study painting. In 1791 he got together with his brother from Bonn Elector Maximilian Franz of Austria a scholarship to Rome. 1796 Karl moved from Kügelgen with Andreas Romberg on to Vienna and later to Riga.

Charles of Kügelgen married in 1807 Emilie Zoege von Manteuffel. His eldest son Constantine of Kügelgen (1810-1880) was also a landscape painter.

Works

Landscape drawings and paintings, among others from the Crimea, from Finland and Estonia