Alexander von Kotzebue

Alexander von Kotzebue studied at Imperial Academy of Arts. Otto von Faber du Faur is recorded as having studied under Alexander von Kotzebue. The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are history. Work by Alexander von Kotzebue is recorded in the collections of Hermitage Museum, Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineers and Signal Corps and Art Museum of Estonia. Distinctions recorded are Large gold medal of the Imperial Academy of Arts.

• Born — 28 May 1815 • Birthplace — Königsberg • Died — 12 August 1889 • Place of death — Munich • Education — Member Professor • Alma Mater — Alumni • Awards — Medal • Known for — Painting

Alexander von Kotzebue was the son of the playwright August von Kotzebue. He was born in Königsberg. On August's death in 1819, Alexander was educated in the Cadet Corps in St Petersburg, leaving it in 1834 as a Gardeleutnant. However, four years later, in 1838, he moved to an artistic career and began his artistic training at the St Petersburg Academy under Alexander Sauerweid. He spent six years at the St Petersburg Academy and at the end of them, in 1844, exhibited his first painting, The Storming of Warsaw, in St Petersburg. He then went to continue his studies in Paris in 1846 and to Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy and Germany in 1848, before finally settling in Munich. There he became imperial professor of Russian and an honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. He painted several large-scale works for the Russian tsar of Russian battles in the Seven Years' War and the campaigns of Alexander Suvorov. The most important of these are considered to be the Storming of Schlüsselburg, Battle of Poltawa, Storming of Narva, Crossing of the Devil's Bridge and Founding of St Petersburg (Maximilianeum, Munich). Kotzebue died in Munich and is buried there in the Alter Südfriedhof.

• Illustration — The Battle of Narva • Illustration — The Storming of Nöteborg • Illustration — The Capture of Narva • Illustration — The Battle of Lesnaya • Illustration — The Russian Victory at Poltava • Illustration — The Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf • Illustration — The Battle of Zorndorf • Illustration — The Battle of Kunersdorf • Illustration — The Raid on Berlin • Illustration — The Fall of Kolberg • Illustration — The Battle of the Trebbia • Illustration — The Battle of Novi • Illustration — The Crossing of the Gotthard Pass • Illustration — The Battle of Devil's Bridge • Illustration — The Battle of the Muottental • Illustration — The Battle of Borodino (Izmailovsky Life Guards Regiment) • Illustration — The Battle of Kulm • Illustration — The Battle of Kulevicha

Alexander von Kotzebue is recorded as painter, poet, war artist and military officer.