Carl Hagemann (chemist)
Carl Hagemann (born April 9, 1867 in Essen , † November 20, 1940 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a chemist, German industrial manager and one of the most important German art collectors and patrons in the first half of the 20th century.
Life
Carl Hagemann grew up in a middle-class family in Essen and attended the humanistic grammar school there on Burgplatz . From 1886 to 1890 he studied philosophy and chemistry in Tübingen, Hanover and Leipzig. In Hanover he became a member of the Corps Hannovera in 1886 . At the University of Leipzig he received his doctorate in 1893 under Johannes Wislicenus . joined the Bayer paint factory and made a career there. In 1920 he became technical director of the Cassella Farbwerke Mainkur in Frankfurt. After its incorporation into the newly formed IG Farben in 1925, he became a member of the board there . When he reached the age of 65, he retired in 1932.
Hagemann began collecting art around the turn of the century. His first collector's items were graphics by popular artists at the time. In the second decade of the 20th century, Hagemann turned to the painters of the bridge and Emil Nolde , initially under the influence of his friend Ernst Gosebruch , the director of the Essen art museum . Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , with whom he was friends until his death in 1938, received a monthly fixed salary from him, for which Hagemann would choose pictures.
Over the course of four decades, Hagemann assembled a very personal collection of paintings, graphics and sculptures. At the turn of the year 1936/37 he acquired Ernst-Ludwig Kirchner's key work, Berlin Street Scene ( Neue Galerie , New York), from the Hess family through the Kölner Kunstverein . His collection also included Kirchner's Nude with Hat and Variety Show or Nolde's Christ in the Underworld (all three of the Städel , Frankfurt). When he died in an accident in 1940, the collector left behind around 1,900 art objects, including almost a hundred paintings by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , Erich Heckel , Otto Mueller , Emil Nolde and others.
Since it is in the National Socialist German Reich to degenerate art acted, the then director of the Städel, went Ernst Holzinger , a high personal risk, as he hid the entire collection at the Städel and outsourced with the images of the Städel. In this way, the collection survived the war largely unscathed.
Today, pictures from Hagemann's collection are in museums all over the world, some of them in private ownership. The graphics and drawings were given as a gift to the Städel in Frankfurt as a thank you for their extraordinary commitment in a time threatened.
literature
- Hans Delfs et al. (Eds.): Kirchner, Schmidt-Rottluff, Nolde, Nay ..., letters to the collector and patron Carl Hagemann. Ostfildern 2004, ISBN 3-7757-1477-4 .
- Friedrich Eiden : Carl Hagemann ... a man of great kindness, a real chemist ... In: Chemie in our time , 41 (4), 2007, pp. 316–323. doi : 10.1002 / ciuz.200700411
- Artist of the bridge in the Hagemann collection. Exhibition catalog, Frankfurt am Main / Essen 2004/2005.
- Martin Schieder : Patronage. The artist's point of view. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and his relationship with Carl Hagemann. In: Thomas W. Gaehtgens, Martin Schieder Ed .: Patronage. Studies on the culture of citizenship in society. Berlin 1998, pp. 125-144.
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl Hagemann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Carl Hagemann in the German Bibliography.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 1866–1966, Corps Hannovera at the Technical University of Hanover , 1966, p. 91.
- ↑ Ber. German Chem. Ges. 26 , 876 (1893) ( digitized on Gallica ) and redakt. Correction p. 2300 ( digitized on Gallica )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hagemann, Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist, industrial manager, art collector and patron |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 9, 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | eat |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 20, 1940 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |