{"id":24658,"date":"2022-02-08T18:12:58","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T17:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dresden-magazin.com\/uncategorized\/gerhard-von-kuegelgen-dresdens-painter-of-souls\/"},"modified":"2022-02-08T18:19:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T17:19:41","slug":"gerhard-von-kuegelgen-dresdens-painter-of-souls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresden-magazin.com\/en\/culture\/gerhard-von-kuegelgen-dresdens-painter-of-souls\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerhard von K\u00fcgelgen \u2013 Dresden\u2019s \u201cpainter of souls\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Who was Gerhard von K\u00fcgelgen?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Gerhard von K\u00fcgelgen was a portrait painter and professor at the Dresden Art Academy<\/a>. K\u00fcgelgen immortalised all the important personalities of his time on canvas, including the Russian Tsar\u2019s family, the war hero Gebhard Leberecht von Bl\u00fccher and his close friend Caspar David Friedrich. In Weimar he painted Johann Wolfgang von Goethe\u2019s portrait, who called him a \u201cpainter of souls\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The K\u00fcgelgenhaus: Formerly a meeting place for intellectuals, now a museum<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

K\u00fcgelgen, who was born 250 years ago, lived with his family in Dresden\u2019s Neustadt from 1808 to 1820. The painter\u2019s home was a meeting place for artists, poets and musicians of the early Romantic period<\/strong> \u2013 an era during which Dresden played a pioneering role as the art city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n