Oskar Hagen (art historian)
Oskar Frank Leonhard Hagen (born October 14, 1888 in Wiesbaden ; † October 5, 1957 in Madison, Wisconsin ) was a German art historian and founder of the Handel Festival in Göttingen .
Life
From 1908 Hagen studied musicology and art history. In 1913 he moved to Halle (Saale) and received his doctorate there in 1914. After his habilitation in 1918, he worked as a lecturer in art history in Göttingen. As an amateur musician, he was the first to stage an opera by George Frideric Handel again after almost two hundred years . Rodelinde (1920), Otto and Theophano (1921) and Julius Caesar (1922) were performed with music and German text that he arranged .
His two most important works as an art historian were Matthias Grünewald (1919) and Deutschessehen (1920), both of which were reprinted several times.
In 1924 Hagen received an appointment to Madison in the USA . Patterns and Principles of Spanish Art (1936) and The Birth of the American Tradition in Art (1940) appeared in English .
Hagen was married to Thyra Leisner and is the father of Holger Hagen and Uta Hagen .
literature
Ulrich Etscheit: Handel's "Rodelinda" libretto. Composition. Reception; Kassel 1989 (Bärenreiter) dissertation
Web links
- Literature by and about Oskar Hagen in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hagen, Oskar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hagen, Oskar Frank Leonhard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian and founder of the Handel Festival in Göttingen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wiesbaden |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th October 1957 |
| Place of death | Madison, Wisconsin |