Konstantin von Kügelgen (b. 1810 in Saratov

Saratov

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, d. 1880 in Dorpat) was a German landscape painter and the son of Karl von Kügelgen

Karl von Kügelgen

Johann Karl Ferdinand von Kügelgen , 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 Royal Russian Academy of Arts in St...

. In his youth he traveled to Italy. Later, he studied for two years in Munich

Munich

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, where he copied paintings from the Pinakotheks

Kunstareal

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. After the death of his first wife, Sally von Zezschwitz (1814 - 1839) he returned to the Baltics, where he worked as a drawing instructor. He also wrote a memoir entitled Reminiscences Upon My Life (German: Errinerungen aus meinem Leben), which was published posthumously. His son Paul von Kügelgen was a journalist.

External links

• History of the Kügelgen family (In German)