Kugler

Kugler, Franz (1808-58), a German art-historian, was born at Stettin, and studied at Berlin and Heidelberg. In 1833 he became professor at the Academy of Art and teacher in the university of Berlin. Besides poems, and a Life of Frederick the Great (1840), he published a Handbook of the History of Painting from the Time of Constantine (1837), a Handbook of Art- Works in the Middle Ages in Prussia, and a work upon colour in architecture and Greek sculpture.