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Gerhard von Kügelgen

1772 - 1820

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Franz Gerhard von Kügelgen (6 February 1772 – 27 March 1820) was a German painter, noted for his portraits and history paintings. He was a professor at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and a member of both the Prussian and Russian Imperial Academies of Arts. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gerhard von Kügelgen has received more than 54,547 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Gerhard von Kügelgen is the 1,158th most popular painter (up from 1,217th in 2019), the 3,118th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,303rd in 2019) and the 108th most popular German Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Gerhard von Kügelgen ranks 1,158 out of 2,023. Before him are E. H. Shepard, Boccaccio Boccaccino, Rafael Arnaiz Barón, Maria van Oosterwijck, Erró, and Henri Lebasque. After him are Georg Flegel, Gustave Le Gray, Uroš Predić, Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, Utagawa Toyokuni, and Joachim Wtewael.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1772, Gerhard von Kügelgen ranks 27. Before him are Mikhail Speransky, Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut, Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta, Solomon II of Imereti, Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, and Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. After him are Miguel Ricardo de Álava, Luke Howard, Friedrich Gilly, Burgravine Louise Isabelle of Kirchberg, Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet, and Hồ Xuân Hương. Among people deceased in 1820, Gerhard von Kügelgen ranks 28. Before him are Nguyễn Du, Daniel Boone, Anders Sparrman, Arthur Young, Benjamin West, and Princess Adelheid of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym. After him are Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, Antonín Vranický, Karl Ludwig Sand, Ivan Gudovich, Alexis Thérèse Petit, and Louise Caroline of Hochberg.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gerhard von Kügelgen ranks 3,118 out of 7,253. Before him are William, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1593), Princess Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1778), Heinrich XIII, Prince Reuss of Greiz (1747), Hermann Hankel (1839), Johann Heinrich Schulze (1687), and Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg (1684). After him are H.P. Baxxter (1964), Bernd Eichinger (1949), Werner March (1894), Adolf Diekmann (1914), Fatih Akin (1973), and Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe (1859).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Gerhard von Kügelgen ranks 108. Before him are Caspar Netscher (1639), Johann Baptist Zimmermann (1680), Carlos Schwabe (1866), Fritz Bleyl (1880), Franz Pforr (1788), and Johannes Lingelbach (1622). After him are Jörg Breu the Elder (1475), Albrecht Adam (1786), Georg Pencz (1500), Fritz von Uhde (1848), Hans Hofmann (1880), and Paul Renner (1878).

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