Friedrich Hagedorn (painter)
Friedrich Hagedorn (* 1814 in Stettin , Pomerania Province ; † 1889 in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil ) was a German landscape painter and lithographer who worked in Portugal and Brazil.
Life
Born the son of a tobacco manufacturer, Hagedorn studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich from January 9, 1839 .
From 1844 to 1847 he worked as a court painter in Lisbon . In 1848 he came to Brazil and settled in Rio de Janeiro. There he joined the group of German artists, set up his studio and went on study trips through Brazil. He visited São Paulo , Bahia , Minas Gerais , Niterói , Petrópolis , Teresópolis , Juiz de Fora , Salvador and Recife . He took part in the Exposição Geral de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro in 1859 and 1860 .
He mostly painted with watercolor and tempera , and some of his landscapes appeared in the form of chromolithographs .
His works are in the collections of the Hispanic Society of America in New York, the National Library of Brazil, the Museu do Estado de Pernambuco in Recife, and in private collections.
plant
Panorama of Recife, 1855, composite lithograph, Museu do Estado de Pernambuco
literature
- Hagedorn, Friedrich . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 67, de Gruyter, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-598-23034-9 , p. 393 f.
- Carlos Alberto Cerqueira Lemos, José Roberto Teixeira Leite, Pedro Manuel Gismonti: The art of Brazil . Harper & Row, New York 1983, ISBN 0-06-435289-7 , p. 174.
- Carlos Cavalcanti (Ed.): Dicionário brasileiro de artistas plásticos. MEC / INL, Brasília 1974. Volume 2: D a L, p. 313.
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hagedorn, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hawthorn, Frederick |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1814 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Szczecin , Pomerania Province |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1889 |
| Place of death | Rio de Janeiro , Brazil |