Stanislaus von Kalckreuth

Count Stanislaus Friedrich Ludwig von Kalckreuth (25 December 1820, Kozmin - 25 November 1894, Munich) was a German painter who specialized in mountain landscapes.

After completing his primary education at the gymnasium in Leszno (then Polnisch Lissa), he was briefly a member of a cadet corps.

At the age of twenty, he went to Potsdam and became an officer in the 1st Foot Guards, but served for only a short time, having decided on a career in art.

That same year, he moved again, this time to Düsseldorf, enrolling at the Kunstakademie and studying with Johann Wilhelm Schirmer from 1846 to 1849.

In 1858, he went to Weimar and was instrumental in creating the Grand-Ducal Saxon Art School; becoming its first director in 1860 at a grand opening ceremony attended by the King.