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Wilhelm Georg Alexander von Kügelgen (20 November 1802, in St.Petersburg – 25 May 1867, in
He was the son of portrait and history painter Gerhard von Kügelgen. The home where he grew up in Dresden is now the . He attended the Gymnasium in
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/ref> They had six children. In 1833, he became the Court Painter at the Anhalt-Bernburg summer residence in Ballenstedt and remained there the rest of his life. From 1853 to 1863, he served as personal chamberlain to Duke Alexander Karl, who was suffering from a severe mental illness. During these years, he increasingly turned from painting to writing. In 1870, his memoirs were published by Philipp von Nathusius. They were given the title ''Jugenderinnerungen eines alten Mannes'' (Childhood Memories of an Old Man). These stories from his youth quickly became popular reading for the German middle-class. Their 230th edition appeared in 1922. An English translation was made under the title ''Bygone Days: Or, an Old Man's Reminiscences of His Youth''. Several editions in German and English are available as reprints. Since 1993, the Kunstkreis Sachsen-Anhalt in Bernburg has awarded an annual "Wilhelm von Kügelgen Scholarship" to art students.
''Jugenderinnerung eines alten Mannes''
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Kügelgen-Kulturverein Ballenstedt
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kugelgen, Wilhelm von Russian people of German descent Artists from Dresden 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters 1802 births 1867 deaths
Wilhelm Georg Alexander von Kügelgen (20 November 1802, in St.Petersburg – 25 May 1867, in Ballenstedt
Ballenstedt is a town in the Harz district, in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.
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) was a German portrait and history painter, writer, and chamberlain
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at the Court of Anhalt-Bernburg. He is best known for his posthumously published memoirs, which have gone through many editions from seventeen different publishers.
Life
He was the son of portrait and history painter Gerhard von Kügelgen. The home where he grew up in Dresden is now the . He attended the Gymnasium in Bernburg (Saale)
Bernburg (Saale) is a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, capital of the Salzlandkreis district. The former residence of the Anhalt-Bernburg princes is known for its Renaissance castle.
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The town centre is situated in the fertile Magdeburg ...
and studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
The Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (German ''Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden''), often abbreviated HfBK Dresden or simply HfBK, is a vocational university of visual arts located in Dresden, Germany. The present institution is the produc ...
. When he was eighteen, his father was murdered during a robbery, creating an emotional crisis that challenged his religious beliefs. From 1825 to 1826, he lived in Rome, where he became friends with fellow painter Ludwig Richter. It was at this time that he began to suffer from progressive colorblindness
Color blindness or color vision deficiency (CVD) is the decreased ability to see color or differences in color. It can impair tasks such as selecting ripe fruit, choosing clothing, and reading traffic lights. Color blindness may make some aca ...
.
In 1827, he married Julie Krummacher (1804-1909), daughter of Friedrich Adolf Krummacher
Friedrich Adolf Krummacher (July 13, 1767 – April 14, 1845) was a German Reformed theologian and a writer of devotional poetry and prose.
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He was born in Tecklenburg, Westphalia. Having studied theology at Lingen and Halle, he became ...
, the evangelical theologian
Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the ...
.''Genealogisches Handbuch der baltischen Ritterschaften, Teil 2,1,: Estland, Bd.:1'', Görlitz, 1930s.627
/ref> They had six children. In 1833, he became the Court Painter at the Anhalt-Bernburg summer residence in Ballenstedt and remained there the rest of his life. From 1853 to 1863, he served as personal chamberlain to Duke Alexander Karl, who was suffering from a severe mental illness. During these years, he increasingly turned from painting to writing. In 1870, his memoirs were published by Philipp von Nathusius. They were given the title ''Jugenderinnerungen eines alten Mannes'' (Childhood Memories of an Old Man). These stories from his youth quickly became popular reading for the German middle-class. Their 230th edition appeared in 1922. An English translation was made under the title ''Bygone Days: Or, an Old Man's Reminiscences of His Youth''. Several editions in German and English are available as reprints. Since 1993, the Kunstkreis Sachsen-Anhalt in Bernburg has awarded an annual "Wilhelm von Kügelgen Scholarship" to art students.
References
Further reading
* G. Reich: ''Wilhelm von Kügelgen als religiöse Persönlichkeit und theologischer Denker'', in: ', 4 (1952) * Hans Schöner: ''Wilhelm von Kügelgen. Sein Leben und seine Bilder''. Self-published, Mönkeberg 1992 * * Volker Ebersbach: ''Köstliche Perlen finden sich reichlich - ein Kügelgen-Brevier.'' Janos Stekovics, Halle/Saale 2002,External links
*''Jugenderinnerung eines alten Mannes''
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, in German)
Kügelgen-Kulturverein Ballenstedt
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