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 The grave of Gerhard von Kügelgen at the Innerer Katholischen Friedhof, Dresden. Picture by Androom (5 Aug 1998) |
 'Ariadne auf Naxos'. (Köln: Walraff-Richartz Museum) |
Kügelgen, Gerhard von |
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BORN 6 Feb 1772, Bacharach - DIED 27 Mar 1820, Dresden-Loschwitz GRAVE LOCATION Dresden: Alter Katholischer Friedhof, Friedrichstrasse |
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Came to Dresden in 1805. He lived in the house at the Hauptstrasse
which is now the Museum der Frühromantik (Museum of Early Romanticism).
In 1814 he became a Professor at the Academy of Art. His work
consists mainly of portraits and religious and mythical scenes.
among his portraits are those of Goethe, Schiller, Wieland,
Herder and Caspar David Friedrich. His brother Carl was also
a painter and worked in St. Petersburg.
Related persons • was teacher to Seidler, Louise Sources • Baedeker's Rhine, Baedeker, Stuttgart, 1985 |
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The grave of Gerhard von Kügelgen at the Innerer Katholischen Friedhof, Dresden. Picture by Androom (5 Aug 1998) |
'Ariadne auf Naxos'. (Köln: Walraff-Richartz Museum) |
