Carl Haag
Carl Haag (born April 20, 1820 in Erlangen , † January 17, 1915 in Oberwesel ) was an English watercolor, miniature and portrait painter and etcher of German origin.
Life
At the age of 16, Haag became a student of Albert Christoph Reindel at the Nuremberg Art School in 1836 . Supported and encouraged by his teacher, he attended the art academy in Munich between 1844 and 1846 . At this time he achieved his first successes as a portraitist of prominent personalities. He then continued his education in Brussels.
In 1847 Haag went on a study trip to Great Britain , where he discovered watercolor painting for himself in London . 1847/48 Haag lived and worked in Rome . In the summer of 1848 he returned to London and became a student at the Royal Academy of Arts . The Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha noticed him during a study trip to Tyrol and shortly afterwards introduced him to Queen Victoria . He received several commissions from her, including the well-known painting Evening in Balmoral . During this time, Haag also became a British citizen. In 1850 he became a member of the Old Water Color Society . In the same year he made his first trip to the Rhine.
Between 1852 and 1857, Haag was a member of the German Artists' Association in Rome. In the following years he undertook several extensive study trips through Egypt , Palestine and Syria and from then on devoted himself almost exclusively to oriental subjects . As early as 1867, Haag had set up a large studio in Hampstead (London) , which he decorated in an “oriental style”. In 1864 he acquired the ruins of a tower in the city wall, the so-called "Red Tower", in Oberwesel am Rhein and expanded it into a summer residence with a studio. In 1903 Carl Haag and his wife, Ida, moved to Oberwesel and lived in the tower that is named after him until his death. The International Carl Haag Society was founded in Oberwesel on January 17, 2015.
Works (selection)
- Evening in Balmoral
- The sudden shock in the desert
- Danger in the Desert (1867)
- The ruins of Baalbek
- Panorama of Palmyra
- Bedouin devotion
- Outpost in Montenegro
- Reading the Koran
literature
- Hague, Carl . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 382–383 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
- Delia Millar: Queen Victoria's Life in the Scottish Highlands depicted by her watercolor artists. London 1985.
- Walter Karbach: Court painter Carl Haag. Victorian watercolor artist between the Middle East and Oberwesel on the Rhine. Oberwesel 2003.
- Walter Karbach (in collaboration with Catherine Allison): Carl Haag: Victorian court painter and traveling adventurer between Orient and Occident , Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, [2019], ISBN 978-3-422-07481-1
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl Haag in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website of the Carl Haag Society
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hague, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hague, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-English painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 20, 1820 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | gain |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 17, 1915 |
| Place of death | Oberwesel |