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| Alexander von Kotzebue | |
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 Portrait, 1857 | |
| Born | (1815-05-28)May 28, 1815 Königsberg |
| Died | August 12, 1889(1889-08-12) (aged 74) Munich |
| Nationality | German |
| Education | Member Academy of Arts (1850) Professor by rank (1858) |
| Alma mater | Imperial Academy of Arts (1844) |
| Known for | Painting |
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Alexander Friedrich Wilhelm Franz von Kotzebue or Alexander Yevstafiyevich Kotzebue (Russian: Александр Евстафиевич Коцебу, romanized: Aleksandr Yevstafiyevich Kotsebu; 9 June 1815 – 24 August 1889) was a German Romantic painter of historical scenes and battle scenes.
Life
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.
Gallery
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The Battle of Narva
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The Storming of Nöteborg
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The Capture of Narva
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The Battle of Lesnaya
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The Russian Victory at Poltava
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The Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf
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The Battle of Zorndorf
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The Battle of Kunersdorf
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The Raid on Berlin
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The Fall of Kolberg
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The Battle of the Trebbia
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The Battle of Novi
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The Crossing of the Gotthard Pass
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The Battle of Devil's Bridge
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The Battle of the Muottental
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The Battle of Borodino (Izmailovsky Life Guards Regiment)
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The Battle of Kulm
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The Battle of Kulevicha
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Sources
- Sylva van der Heyden: "Kotzebue, (August) Alexander Evstafievich" by Alexander Ferdinand Wilhelm Franz In: France Nerlich and Bénédicte Savoy (Eds.), Pariser Lehrjahre. Ein Lexikon zur Ausbildung deutscher Maler in der französischen Hauptstadt. Vol.2: 1844–1870. De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston 2015 ISBN 978-3-11-031477-9
- Rostislav von Kotzebue, Geschichte und Genealogie der Familie Kotzebue, Harvas 1984 ISBN 978-2-903118-11-2
External links
- (in Russian) Gallery of Kotzebue's work
- (in German) Baltic knightly family trees
- Members of the Imperial Academy of Arts
- Academic staff of the Imperial Academy of Arts
- Imperial Academy of Arts alumni
- Awarded with a large gold medal of the Academy of Arts
- 1815 births
- 1889 deaths
- Artists from the Kingdom of Prussia
- Expatriates in the Russian Empire
- German romantic painters
- Artists from Königsberg
- 19th-century painters of historical subjects