Friederich von Kleudgen

Baron Friedrich von Kleudgen, sometimes known by his nickname Fritz, was born in Germany and studied painting in Weimar.

In the city he found a small German community and fascinated by the climate and light, decided to settle in the Ligurian town.

The house, which he named "Villa Banana", and that is on the 4th of Via dei Colli, still exists today but was converted into an apartment building.

The daughter remembers that on the terrace of the house in the summer evenings, von Kleudgen often fiddled with bordigotti friends including the painter and Mayor GF Piana.

[1] He was a friends of the other painters and artists who lived in Bordighera as Pompeo Mariani, Giuseppe Ferdinando Piana, Hermann Nestel, Charles Garnier and of course Ludwig Winter.