Alfred Hagelstange

Alfred Hagelstange (born September 5, 1874 in Erfurt , † December 2, 1914 in Cologne ) was a German art historian .

Hagelstange studied classical studies and art history at the universities of Freiburg , Leipzig , Göttingen and Strasbourg . In 1897 he received his doctorate in Göttingen.

After an internship at the Kupferstichkabinett of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg in 1898, he worked as an assistant at the Städel Art Institute in Frankfurt am Main and then at the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Magdeburg, which had recently been built . There he helped the director Theodor Volbehr set up the museum and created the library guide. From 1908 until his death, Hagelstange was the successor to Carl Aldenhoven, director of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne. With targeted purchases - such as the Wilhelm Leibl Collection - he opened the house to painters of realism and classical modernism .

He died after a short illness of a heart attack.

Publications (selection)

• South German peasant life in the Middle Ages . Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898 (= dissertation).

literature

• Arnold Fortlage: Alfred Hagelstange. in: Die Kunst für alle 30, 1915, pp. 159–160 (with picture).