Education
He studied literature, music and the visual arts at the University of Berlin.
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He studied literature, music and the visual arts at the University of Berlin.
He was the father of historian Bernhard von Kugler (1837-1898). After attending classes in Heidelberg, he returned to Berlin in 1827 in order to study architecture. In 1831 he obtained his doctorate under Ernst Heinrich Toelken with a dissertation on Werinher of Tegernsee.
In 1833 he was appointed professor of art history at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, and ten years later, was named to the Ministry of Culture, from which he served as an overseer of Prussian art
Cultural historian, Jakob Burckhardt, was a prominent student of his. In 1837 he released his "Handbuch der Geschichte der Malerei" (2 volumes), and a few years later, he published the acclaimed "Handbuch der Kunstgeschichte", a comprehensive survey of world art
He was also the author of a biography on Frederick the Great, "Geschichte Friedrichs des Großen" (1840) and of a monograph on architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1842). From 1833 to 1837, he was editor of the journal "Museum, Blätter für bildende Kunst".
Johannes Brahms employed text written by Kugler for his Ständchen ("Der Mond steht über dem Berge"), a song for voice and piano, Operation