Caroline von Keyserling

Countess Caroline von Keyserling (1727-1791) was an Honorary Member of the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin.

She was the daughter of Carl Ludwig from the princely House of Waldburg and Countess Sophie Charlotte of Wylich and Lottum.

From 1755, she held a literary salon in her residence, the Schliebensche Palace on the Vorderroßgarten in Königsberg, which became a culture center of East Prussia.

Among her guests were Immanuel Kant, Johann Georg Hamann, Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel, philosopher and political scientist Kraus, Professor history and poetry Mangelsdorf, the war and Domänenrat Scheffner; it was also an aristocratic center, among the guests of that category being the Prince of Hesse-Kassel, the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, the Russian Grand Duke Paul Petrovich and the future King Frederick William II of Prussia.

She is described as a talented dilettante artist: she painted portraits, scuppered busts, and played several musical instruments.