Blanca von Hagen

Blanca Agathe Adelheid von Hagen (born November 4, 1842 in Breslau , † 1885 or 1916 in Berlin ) was a German portrait and genre painter .

Life

Blanca von Hagen was born on November 4th, 1842 in Breslau. She began her training as a painter in Dresden and Berlin. In Munich she received further training in Gyula Benczúr's studio . Back in Berlin she became a student of Karl Gussow . She went on study trips to Italy and Paris. She took her permanent residence in Berlin. In 1862 and 1870 she was commissioned by the Stift zum Heiligengrabe monastery in Heiligengrabe to paint two pictures for the monastery. Her painting “Homecoming after Mass” was purchased by Kaiser Wilhelm . She was a member of the Association of Berlin Women Artists .

Works (selection)

Solemn introduction of a canoness in the Holy Sepulcher Chapel (1862, graphite on cardboard, watercolored with watercolors )

Luise von Schierstedt Portrait of Abbess Luise von Schierstedt (1794–1876) (1870, oil on canvas )

Wallachian girl .
Coming home after mass .
On the art journey .
Hagar and Ishmael .
At the bedside (1878).
The siblings .
Field workers at lunch break .

Exhibitions (selection)

XLVI. Art exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts 1868.
Berlin academic exhibition 1870 (picture of an abbess and portrait of a lady in pastel colors)
Berlin academic exhibition 1871 (portraits)

literature

Hagen, Blanca Agathe Adelheid from . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon. The most famous contemporaries in the field of fine arts of all countries with details of their works . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 230. Digitized

The artists of all times and peoples or the lives and works of the most famous builders, sculptors, painters, copper engravers, form cutters, lithographers etc. From the earliest art eras to the present day . Volume 4. Edited by Adolf Seubert. Ebner & Seubert, Stuttgart 1870, p. 175. Digitized

Hagen, Blanca from . In: Cyclopedia of painters and paintings . Volume 2. C. Scribner's sons, New York 1913, p. 197.

Hagen, Blanca Agathe Adelheid from : General Artist Lexicon. Life and work of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . Edited by Hans Wolfgang Singer . 2nd volume. 5th unaltered edition. Literary publishing house Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main 1921, p. 117. Digitized

Irmgard Wirth : Berlin painting in the 19th century. From the time of Frederick the Great to the First World War . Siedler, Berlin 1990 ISBN 3-88680-260-4 , p. 529.

Karoline Müller (Ed.): Victoria von Preußen 1840–1901 in Berlin 2001 . Association of Berlin Women Artists, Berlin 2001 ISBN 3-9802288-9-4 , p. 385. (= Communication from the Association of Women Artists in Berlin, Volume 15)

Web links

Blanca von Hagen in Artnet
Painting by Blanca von Hagen in the monastery Stift zum Heiligengrabe .

Individual evidence

↑ Your date and place of death is unclear, Thieme-Becker state 1885 without a place, the lexicon of women artists literally "1916 (?) Berlin (?)"

↑ Karoline Müller.

↑ ( Gen 16.15 EU ).

↑ Deutsche Rundschau . Volume 17, 1878, p. 308.

^ "Besides these portrait painters, most of whom have exhibited several portraits, the following [...] are represented: from Berlin: [...] Blanca von Hagen ( pastel )". In: Special supplement of the Royal Prussian State Gazette . On No. 252 of October 24, 1868, p. 8.

↑ Bruno Meyer : The proportion of women in the Berlin art exhibition . In: The women's lawyer. Organ of the Association of German Women's and Employment Associations . Edited by Jenny Hirsch . 1st year 1870–1871. Otto Loewenstein, Berlin 1871, p. 319. Digitized

↑ "Several women were also well represented in the portrait subject, like Blanca von Hagen" [...]. In: Bruno Meyer: The Berlin academic exhibition. II. In: Art Chronicle. Supplement to the magazine for visual arts . 6th year EA Seemann, Leipzig 1871, p. 107 digitized

↑ “In other respects, too, there were some valuable things in the portrait, although neither as much nor as beautiful as one is used to seeing at exhibitions. […] Blanca von Hagen […] were represented with good works, some of which were excellent. ”In: Bruno Meyer: The Berlin academic art exhibition in the war year . II. In: Supplementary sheets for knowledge of the present , Volume 7 Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, 1871, p. 97 digitized

personal data
SURNAME	Hagen, Blanca from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hagen, Blanca Agathe Adelheid von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German portrait and genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH	November 4, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH	1885 or 1916
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Your date and place of death is unclear, Thieme-Becker state 1885 without a place, the lexicon of women artists literally "1916 (?) Berlin (?)"

[2] Karoline Müller.

[3] ( Gen 16.15 EU ).

[4] Deutsche Rundschau . Volume 17, 1878, p. 308.

[5] "Besides these portrait painters, most of whom have exhibited several portraits, the following [...] are represented: from Berlin: [...] Blanca von Hagen ( pastel )". In: Special supplement of the Royal Prussian State Gazette . On No. 252 of October 24, 1868, p. 8.

[6] Bruno Meyer : The proportion of women in the Berlin art exhibition . In: The women's lawyer. Organ of the Association of German Women's and Employment Associations . Edited by Jenny Hirsch . 1st year 1870–1871. Otto Loewenstein, Berlin 1871, p. 319. Digitized

[7] "Several women were also well represented in the portrait subject, like Blanca von Hagen" [...]. In: Bruno Meyer: The Berlin academic exhibition. II. In: Art Chronicle. Supplement to the magazine for visual arts . 6th year EA Seemann, Leipzig 1871, p. 107 digitized

[8] “In other respects, too, there were some valuable things in the portrait, although neither as much nor as beautiful as one is used to seeing at exhibitions. […] Blanca von Hagen […] were represented with good works, some of which were excellent. ”In: Bruno Meyer: The Berlin academic art exhibition in the war year . II. In: Supplementary sheets for knowledge of the present , Volume 7 Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, 1871, p. 97 digitized