Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz

Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz (* October 15, ^July / October 27, 1824 ^greg. At Gut Klein-Wrangelshof (Väike-Prangli), near Tartu , Estonia ; † October 7, ^July / October 20, 1902 ^greg. In Tartu) was a Baltic German painter.

life and work

She received her first lessons from her father, the painter August Matthias Hagen (1794–1878). Her further training took place in Dresden from 1846 under Friedrich Gonne , which was made possible by a grant from the Dorpater sculptor Franz Karl von Villebois .

From 1848 she studied in Munich with the genre painter Moritz Rugendas and the portraitist Joseph Bernhardt .

A three-year travel grant from Tsar Nicholas I made it possible for her to go to Rome from 1851 to 1854, where she continued her education with August Riedel, who is known for his lighting effects , and among other things, a genre painting entitled A Woman, looking at her jewelry by the burning fireplace , painted.

When she returned to Livonia in 1855, she married the astronomer Ludwig Schwarz , who later became the director of the Dorpater observatory . She accompanied him on a three-year research trip to Eastern Siberia . She lived in Tartu, where she was particularly active as a portrait painter. In 1858 she was appointed a member of the Petersburg Art Academy .

She was particularly known for her early flower pictures and her later portraits of numerous Baltic personalities, e. B. by Karl Ernst von Baer or Christian Heinrich Pander , but also painted genre and landscape paintings as well as sacred.

literature

Hagen-Schwarz, Julie Wilhelmine . 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. 465 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Hagen-Schwarz, Julie Wilhelmine . In: German Biographical Encyclopedia . tape 4 : Gies – Hessel . Saur, Munich [u. a.] 1999, ISBN 3-598-23170-9 , pp. 322 ( books.google.de - restricted view).
Hagen-Schwarz, […] Julie Wilhelmine . In: A. Aarna (Ed.): Eesti Nõukogude Entsüklopeedia . tape 2 : E-Herm . Kirjastus Valgus, Tallinn 1970, p. 492 (Estonian, books.google.de - restricted view).

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personal data
SURNAME	Hagen-Schwarz, Julie Wilhelmine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gagen-Svarc, Julija Vil'gel'mina; Хаген-Шварц, Юлия
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Baltic German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	October 27, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tartu
DATE OF DEATH	October 20, 1902
Place of death	Tartu