Johann Karl Ferdinand von Kügelgen ( German: Johann Karl Freddinand von Kügelgen ); February 6, 1772 , Baharach (now the land of Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany ) - January 9, 1832 , Revel (now Tallinn ) - Russian landscape painter and historical painter of the Enlightenment, court painter of the Russian imperial court. Academician of the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts (since 1804). Member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin .
| Karl von Kugelgen | |
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| Karl von Kügelgen | |
 Twins Gerhardt and Karl von Kugelgen | |
| Birth name | Karl Ferdinand von Kugelgen |
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Baharah |
| Date of death | or |
| Place of death | Tallinn Estland Province Russian Empire |
| A country | |
| Genre | landscape , historical painting |
| Study | |
| Style | academism |
| Ranks | Academician of IAH (1804) |
Biography
German by birth. The twin brother Gerhardt von Kugelgen , portrait painter, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden, a member of the Prussian and Russian Academy of Fine Arts .
Educated at the University of Bonn .
He studied painting with his brother from the landscape painter Stutz in Frankfurt am Main , then from J. Tsik in Koblenz ; their mentor was also the historical painter and portrait painter H. Fezel .
In 1791, the Saxon Elector Maximilian Franz of Austria sent his brothers to Rome for further education. In 1795 he went to Riga, from where in 1798 he and his brother were invited to Russia, entered the mercy of Emperor Paul I and received the title of court painters.
Being an academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, Karl von Kugelgen, on behalf of Alexander I twice traveled to the Crimea - in 1804 and 1806 and in 1818 - to Finland , brought from these trips many drawings and sketches acquired later by the emperor. Some of its Crimean and species were published in lithographs .
By order of the emperor, Karl von Kugelgen created a series of paintings "Types of Revel ."
In 1807 he married Emilia from the Baltic German baronial family Tsege-von-Manteuffeli . He lived and worked in the Russian Empire until the end of his life; he died in Reval in 1831.
Karl von Kugelgen went down in history as an artist, the first to capture landscapes of the new possessions of the Russian Empire - Crimea, Finland, and also Estonia.
Together with his brother, he influenced the development of landscape and historical genres in Russian painting. In the art history of Estonia and Latvia, the influence of Karl-Ferdinand and Gerhardt von Kugelgen is so significant that scholars often call this period the Kugelgen era.
The works of artist brothers are kept in the State Hermitage Museum, Pavlovsk State Museum Reserve , the Gallery of New Masters in Dresden , the Dresden Drawing Room, the Dresden City Museum, the Dresden Romanticism Museum-Kugelgen House, the Latvian National Museum of Art, the Museum of the History of Riga and Navigation, the Tarot Library , Tartu Art Museum, as well as in private collections in Germany and Estonia.
- The work of Karl Kugelgen
View of cave rocks near Kachikalen. Crimea. 1824 year
The old fortress in Ivangorod . 1818
View of Helsingfors (1823-24)
Landscape
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Benezit Dictionary of Artists - 2006. - ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7 , 978-0-19-989991-3
- ↑ 1 2 RKDartists