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Johann Karl Ferdinand von Kügelgen (6 February 1772, in Bacharach am Rhein – 9 January 1832 [O.S. 28 December 1831], in Tallinn),[1] also known as Carl Ferdinand von Kügelgen was a landscape and history painter, a Russian court and cabinet painter in St. Petersburg, a member of the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, and a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin. He is the grandfather of Sally von Kügelgen.

Karl von Kügelgen, portrait by his brother Gerhard (c.1798)
Karl von Kügelgen, portrait by his brother Gerhard (c.1798)
Wide, wooded, flooded landscape with rider and beggars. (German:Weite, bewaldete Flusslandschaft mit einem Reiter und Bettlern) Oil on canvas, 33 x 42 cm.
Wide, wooded, flooded landscape with rider and beggars. (German:Weite, bewaldete Flusslandschaft mit einem Reiter und Bettlern) Oil on canvas, 33 x 42 cm.

Life


His twin brother Gerhard von Kügelgen was active as a portrait and history painter in Dresden. In his school days in Bonn, during which he lived with his brother, he studied at the first Bonn University of Philosophy [de]. Ludwig van Beethoven was among his classmates.

In 1790 he traveled to Frankfurt and Würzburg, where he later worked in the studios of Johann Christoph Fesel [de]. In 1791 he and his brother received a scholarship to Rome from the Elector of Bonn Archduke Maximilian Franz of Austria. In 1796, he travelled to Vienna with the composer Andreas Romberg and his cousin, Bernhard Romberg, then later moved to Riga.

In 1807, he married Emilie Zoege von Manteuffel (1788-1835), the sister of Gerhard's wife, Helene. His eldest son, Konstantin von Kügelgen, was also a landscape painter.[2]


Citations


  1. Entry on the Digital museum of art
  2. Genealogisches Handbuch der baltischen Ritterschaften, Teil 2,1,: Estland, Bd.:1, Görlitz, 1930 p.627

Further reading





На других языках


[de] Karl von Kügelgen

Johann Karl Ferdinand von Kügelgen (* 6. Februar 1772 in Bacharach am Rhein; † 9. Januar 1832 in Reval) war Landschafts- und Historienmaler, russischer Hof- und Kabinettmaler in Sankt Petersburg, Mitglied der Kaiserlich-Russischen Akademie der Künste in St. Petersburg und Mitglied der Königlich Preußischen Akademie der Künste in Berlin.
- [en] Karl von Kügelgen

[fr] Karl von Kügelgen

Karl von Kügelgen, né le 6 février 1772 à Bacharach et mort le 9 janvier 1832 à Revel, est un peintre allemand, frère jumeau du peintre Gerhard von Kügelgen.

[ru] Кюгельген, Карл фон

Иоганн Карл Фердинанд фон Кюгельген (нем. Johann Karl Freddinand von Kügelgen); 6 февраля 1772, Бахарах (ныне земли Рейнланд-Пфальц, Германии) — 9 января 1832, Ревель (ныне Таллин) — российский художник-пейзажист и исторический живописец эпохи Просвещения, придворный художник русского императорского двора. Академик Санкт-Петербургской Императорской Академии художеств (с 1804). Член Королевской Прусской академии искусств в Берлине.



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