Karl Hagedorn

Karl Hagedorn (* 1922 in Güntersberge im Harz ; † 2005 in Philadelphia ) was a German-American artist .

Life

From 1953 to 1959 he lived in Augsburg and from 1956 studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . In 1959 he moved to the USA . Until 1972 he lived in Saint Paul , Minnesota . He worked as an illustrator and graphic artist. From 1960 he taught at the St. Paul Art Center. During this time, designs for colored glass windows were created. From 1962 to 1965 he was artistic director of the Catholic Digest and from 1971 to 1972 he was appointed to teach at Hamline University in St. Paul. He then traveled through Europe for six months in 1972/73 before moving to New York. From 1998 Karl Hagedorn lived and worked in Philadelphia , where he died in October 2005.

Awards

• 1966: 1st Prize for Graphics, Minnesota State Fair Exhibition
• 1966: Purchase Award / Drawing USA , St Paul Art Center
• 1967: Merit Award, Minnesota Biennial , Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Exhibitions

• 2016: Karl Hagedorn - works from the estate of Bode Galerie & Edition, Nuremberg
• 2013: First Look: Collecting for Philadelphia Presentation of the acquisitions of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, collection presentation Neues Museum, Nuremberg
• 2013: Karl Hagedorn - paper works Bode Galerie & Edition, Nuremberg
• 2011: Collection presentation at Neues Museum, Nuremberg
• 2009: Collection presentation at Neues Museum, Nuremberg
• 2006: Karl Hagedorn - In Memoriam Bode Galerie & Edition , Nuremberg
• 2002: Art Association Wernigerode
• 1997: Bode Gallery, Nuremberg
• 1991: Villa Dessauer, Bamberg
• 1989: Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany, New York
• 1981: Kunsthalle Nürnberg
• 1979: Goethe Institute, New York
• 1971: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis / Minnesota
• 1967: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis
• 1966: St. Paul Art Center, St. Paul / Minnesota

On the work of Karl Hagedorn

Man and machine were the central themes in Karl Hagedorn's artistic work. The fascination for machines developed in his childhood - in his father's sawmill. The young Hagedorn showed particular interest in the steam engine. He began to draw intensively when he was about 14 years old. In 1953 he was impressed by the encounter with a work by Fernand Léger in Paris. During his studies, Hagedorn was involved in various projects in addition to oil painting, and executed wall paintings and mosaics in churches and public buildings. His early work at the end of the 1950s shows human figures in initially dark colors, tending towards the tradition of the Renaissance. With the move to America, the human figure in his paintings became increasingly de-individualized. At first, elements from the field of technology, machine parts, signal signs and graphic symbols appeared sporadically, later more and more frequently, as references to the human reference system. In the mid-sixties, Hagedorn found his appropriate visual language, which he has consistently developed since then. The human figure in its external appearance disappeared completely, it was dismantled and integrated into the surrounding parts. The abstract forms can almost always be traced back to organic ones.

Today, works by Karl Hagedorn can be found in numerous collections and museums, mainly in Europe and the USA, such as the Goethe-Institut in New York or the Neues Museum in Nuremberg . The artistic estate is looked after by the Bode Galerie & Edition in Nuremberg.

literature

• Hagedorn, Karl - European roots - American flowers , texts by Graupner, Stefan / Heigl, Curt / Horn, Wolfgang, Bode Galerie & Edition , Nuremberg 1988, ISBN 3980285960 .
• Aspects of Contemporary Art in the USA , Bamberg 1991–92.
• Karl Hagedorn, man and machine. Pictures and drawings 1959-1980 , texts by Heigl, Curt / Horn, Wolfgang / Wally, Barbara, Nuremberg 1981.
• Karl Hagedorn - Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings , exhibition catalog, New York 1979.
• The Road to Abstraction.Progessing from Image to Symbol , article by Diana Cavallo and Karl Hagedorn, in Leonardo Journal of the International, Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, 1991 Vol.24, No.3, pp. 281-284.

Quotes from Karl Hagedorn

“The drawing is primarily the element that clarifies and formulates the idea and creates a stepping stone for the image. Ideas often develop over a long period of time. My systematic way of working helped me to develop and clarify my ideas. This process, which is very important to me, corresponds to my visual thinking. "

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bode Gallery & Edition Biography Karl Hagedorn. Retrieved February 16, 2016 . 

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Hagedorn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Information and images on hawthorn