August Hagen (sculptor)
Christian August Hagen (* 1875 in Nochen , Gummersbach district ; † 1944 in Siegen ) was a German sculptor and painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Hagen, the son of a road construction company, grew up in Siegen. In 1894 he took a specialist course in decorative painting with Ignaz Wagner (1854–1917) at the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts . After briefly studying in Munich , he did a year of military service in Metz . He then studied painting and sculpture at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1898 to 1902 . There were Fritz Roeber and Willy Spatz his teacher of painting. In the sculpture class he was instructed by Karl Janssen . As a freelance artist, he first lived in Düsseldorf , where he worked as both a painter and a sculptor and was a member of the Malkasten artists' association . In 1913 Hagen returned to Siegen. There he and his wife Franziska bought a house in which he also ran a studio. The couple had two children. When economic problems arose at the end of the First World War, there were no orders and his wife died in 1922, he found himself in an economically and artistically desperate situation. He sold the house and moved into a modest rental apartment. Forgotten by previous supporters and friends, he lived there on smaller jobs until his death at the age of 69.
Hagen mainly created portraits, jester sculptures and sculptures from the thematic area of industry, in particular naturalistic depictions of workers and scenes from iron works and quarries. The collection of the Siegerland Museum contains various works from different creative phases and in different techniques.
literature
- Ursula Blanchebarbe: August Hagen's court jester . In: Ursula Blanchebarbe, Susanne Kern-Terheyden, Gottfried Theis: 75 masterpieces in the Siegerland Museum. 75 years of the Association of Friends and Supporters of the Siegerland Museum eV Published by the Association of Friends and Supporters of the Siegerland Museum, Siegen 2012.
Web links
- Court jester from August Hagen , website in the portal westfalen.museum-digital.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
- ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hagen, August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hagen, Christian August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nochen , Gummersbach district |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1944 |
| Place of death | Wins |