Karl von Kügelgen (1772 - 1831)

Karl von Kügelgen

Johann Karl Ferdinand von Kügelgen was a Russian painter of German origin in the late 18th and the first third of the 19th centuries. He is known as a painter, landscape painter, and historical painter.

Karl von Kügelgen was a court painter at the Russian imperial court and went down in history as the first landscape painter to depict the views of the then new possessions of the Russian Empire - the Crimea, Finland, and Estonia. Together with his brother, the famous painter Gerhardt von Kügelgen, he influenced the development of landscape and historical genres in Russian painting.