Ferdinand Jagemann

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Ferdinand Jagemann

Ferdinand Jagemann (born August 24, 1780 in Weimar ; † January 9, 1820 there ) was a German painter and brother of the actress Karoline Jagemann .

Life

Gravestone at the Jakobsfriedhof in Weimar

He was born the son of Christian Joseph Jagemann (* 1735 in Dingelstädt; † February 5, 1804 in Weimar), librarian to Duchess Anna Amalie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach . His sister was the maitresse of Duke Karl August von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach (1757–1828) , who trained him with the Kassel painter Tischbein . He was a student of the court painter Georg Melchior Kraus in Weimar, and a student of Füger in Vienna.

Jagemann stayed in Paris from 1802 to 1804. There is evidence of studying with Jacques-Louis David . Presumably he also studied with Jean-Baptiste Regnault during his stay . He then returned to Weimar to work as a portrait painter. From 1806 to 1810 Jagemann was then Rome for study purposes. There he also maintained close contact with the Berlin sculptor Friedrich Tieck .

Jagemann had been a professor at the Princely Free Drawing School in Weimar since 1804 . There he taught in the newly established class for "oil painting". From 1814 Jagemann was director of the drawing school together with Johann Heinrich Meyer . Johann Wolfgang von Goethe remembered him in a box speech. Jagemann died in Weimar at the age of 39. He was buried in the Jacobsfriedhof Weimar .

Works

He painted many well-known personalities from his time. However, he became known through various portraits of Goethe in 1805, 1806, 1817 and 1819. He also drew Friedrich Schiller on the death bed. This drawing is in the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar.

In 1817 citizens of Udestedt donated Jagemann's painting "Luther at the Reichstag in Worms" to their church.

gallery

literature

  • Hans Wahl , Anton Kippenberg : Goethe and his world . Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1932 p. 272f
  • Nina Struckmeyer: "Jagemann, Ferdinand Carl Christian", in: Savoy, Bénédicte and Nerlich, France (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 1: 1793-1843 , Berlin / Boston 2013, pp. 129-132.

Web links

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