Gotthardt Kuehl

Gotthardt Kuehl studied at Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. Josef Hegenbarth is recorded as having studied under Gotthardt Kuehl. The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is painting and visual arts. Places of work recorded in the authority are Dresden. Employment is recorded with Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. Work by Gotthardt Kuehl is recorded in the collections of Belvedere, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Bavarian State Painting Collections, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and Hungarian National Gallery. Distinctions recorded are Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art.

• Name — Gotthardt Kuehl • Born — 28 November 1850 • Birthplace — Lübeck, German Confederation • Died — 9 January 1915 • Place of death — Dresden, German Empire • Field — Painting • Training — Dresden Academy of Fine Arts Academy of Fine Arts, Munich • Movement — Impressionism

His father, Simon Kühl, was the Sexton and organist at St. Lorenz (Lübeck, 1661–1899). He studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (1867) and the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, (1870). From 1878 to 1889, he lived in Paris. He also made study trips to Italy and the Netherlands. In 1888, he married Henriette Simonson-Castelli (1860–1921), daughter of the portrait painter, David Simonson. At the turn of the century, he and Carl Bantzer, a friend from Paris, were the driving forces behind the establishment of the Verein bildender Künstler Dresden (artists' association). Together, they were also influential in introducing Impressionism there. In 1895, he was named a Professor at the Academy. The following year, he was awarded a gold medal at the Große Berliner Kunstausstellung. In 1902, he was one of the founding members of another artists' association, "Die Elbier". He also served as one of the first board members of the Deutschen Künstlerbundes. In 1913, he was honored with the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art. From 1906 until his death, he lived in a villa near the Wasaplatz. He was cremated and placed in the Urnenhain Tolkewitz. A street has been named for him in Dresden's Strehlen (Dresden) district. in Lübeck a school, originally on the site of his parents' house, was named after him in 1934.