Konstantin von Kügelgen

Konstantin Karl von Kügelgen (1810 in Saratov – 1880 in Dorpat) was a German landscape painter and the son of Karl von Kügelgen.[1]

Konstantin von Kügelgen
(date unknown)
The Blue Grotto at Capri.

Biography

His first art lessons were from his father, which he received together with his cousin, Carl Timoleon von Neff. In his youth he traveled to Italy. Later, he studied for two years in Munich, where he copied paintings from museums in the Kunstareal.

After the death of his first wife, Sally von Zezschwitz (1814–1839) he returned to the Baltics, where he worked as a drawing instructor. In 1840, he married his second wife, Alexandrine Zoege von Manteuffel (1820-1846), a distant relative of his mother. Two years after her premature death, he married into the prominent Maydell family.

He also wrote a memoir entitled Errinerungen aus meinem Leben (Memories from my Life), which was published posthumously in Saint Petersburg.[2]

His daughter, Sally von Kügelgen, from his third marriage, also became an artist. Paul von Kügelgen, a son from his second marriage, was a journalist.

Further reading
  • Leo von Kügelgen: Gerhard von Kügelgen. Ein Malerleben um 1800 und die anderen sieben Künstler der Familie. Stuttgart 1924[3]

References
  1. Genealogisches Handbuch der baltischen Ritterschaften, Teil 2,1,: Estland, Bd.:1, Görlitz, 1930, p.627 (In German)
  2. v. Kügelgen, Constantin, 1881, Erinnerungen aus meinem Leben, Buchdruckerei der St. Petersburger Zeitung Steenken & Laschinsky St. Petersburg
  3. mit Beiträgen zu Gerhard von Kügelgen, Karl von Kügelgen, Wilhelm von Kügelgen, Konstantin von Kügelgen, Sally von Kügelgen, Theodor Kraus, Erich von Kügelgen und Gerhard Kraus
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