Georg Gsell
Visual Artist
1673 – 1740
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Who was Georg Gsell?
Georg Gsell was a Swiss Baroque painter, art consultant and art dealer.
Gsell was born in St. Gallen. He was recruited by Peter the Great in 1716 and went to Russia, where he became first curator of the Imperial art gallery founded in 1720. His wife, Maria-Dorothea, was also an artist, daughter of the famous Maria Sibylla Merian. Their daughter Katharina married mathematician Leonhard Euler in 1733.
Gsell died, aged 67, in St. Petersburg.
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- Born
- Jan 28, 1673
St. Gallen - Also known as
- Гзель, Георг
- Spouses
- Children
- Died
- Nov 22, 1740
Saint Petersburg
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on July 23, 2013
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