Gotthardt Kuehl

Place: Lübeck

Born: 1850

Death: 1915

Biography:

Gotthardt Kuehl was a German painter and a representative of early German Impressionism. He gained wide international recognition during his lifetime.
Kuehl studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts in 1867 and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1870. He lived in Paris from 1878 to 1889 and went on trips to Italy and the Netherlands to study the old masters. In 1895 he became a professor at the Art Academy in Dresden. In 1902 he founded the artists' group Die Elbier.
He held his teaching position in Dresden until his death. Kuehl is buried at the Urnenhain Tolkewitz in Tolkewitz, Dresden. The senator Cay Diedrich Lienau traveled to his funeral as a representative of the city of Lübeck.
Kuehl mainly painted fine interiors, though he was not indifferent to social causes - for example, he painted Lübecker Waisenhaus ("Lübeck orphanage"). Later in his career, he painted Dresden motifs and architectural landscapes.
Other works of art by Kuehl can be found, among other places, at:
Parisian quay, 1885
Lübeck orphanage, 1894
Garden room, 1897
View of Dresden, 1902
Small Accident, by 1905
In the Coffeehouse, by 1915

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