Education
Kuehl studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts in 1867 and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1870.
Kuehl studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts in 1867 and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1870.
He gained wide international recognition during his lifetime. 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. The Behnhaus museum in Lübeck has a collection of paintings by Kuehl, illustrating almost all his developmental phases, and many of the artworks are directly related to the city of Lübeck.
The Munich City Museum houses 15 drawings by Kuehl, from the collection of Joseph Maximilian von Maillinger.
Other works of art by Kuehl can be found, among other places, at:
Old National Gallery in Berlin
Kunsthalle Hamburg
New Masters Gallery (Dresden State Art Collections)
Dresden Municipal Gallery
Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig (Montmartre, oil paintings)
Pomeranian State Museum in Greifswald
Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf
Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover
Gotthardt Kuehl"s paintings.