Richard von Hagn
Richard von Hagn (born March 21, 1850 in Husum ; † December 17, 1933 in Dresden ) was a German architectural and landscape painter of realism and naturalism .
life and work
Richard von Hagn, born on March 21, 1850 in Theodor Storm's "gray city by the sea" Husum, North Friesland district , studied from 1876 to 1880 at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts , especially as a student of Leon Pohl at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe Art .
Like many of his colleagues, von Hagn, who initially worked as a decorative painter , was drawn to the sunny south of Italy in view of the enthusiasm for Italy and the longing for antiquity that had been strengthened since Goethe and Winckelmann . The lagoon city of Venice became, so to speak, his second home, as his numerous thematically located pictures and his address in the Casa Kirsch, Riva Degli Schiavoni, attest.
At first he was almost penniless and had to struggle to gain recognition. According to a roommate, he confessed to the landlady on his arrival in Venice that he was without any special means. After all, he established himself as an architectural painter by the 1880s at the latest thanks to exhibitions at the Royal Academy, Berlin, and in the Glaspalast in Munich , and found a third home in Dresden, where he lived until his death in 1933.
In the summer months, however, he repeatedly visited his hometown Husum and from there undertook excursions to the landscape of North Friesland , which he documented in various landscapes , or to Sylt , when the German enthusiasm for Italy gradually waned.
In his old age, the following confession was not necessarily easy for him, but it also showed his turn to a new topic, which he felt under the sign of the new German nationalism and the departure of romanticism : “Yes, in my youth, it always had to be Venice. It was only much later that we realized that our home is just as beautiful, actually much more beautiful for us. "
However, this attitude did not change the fact that he continued to accept and carry out commissioned work based on the Venetian sketch sheets of the past. He rejected the innovations of Impressionism and Modernism as “painted by madhouses” , although the airy style of his study sheets came very close to their drawing style and some of his pictures (see From Venice ). In his own words, however, it was all about the clean, academic style of painting .
During his lifetime, the then State Museum of the Province of Westphalia in Münster acquired one of his views of St. Mark's Basilica in Venice in 1913 , as did the Bautzen City Museum a year earlier . Various watercolors with views of Dresden's old town were included in the holdings of the Dresden City Museum from 1911.
Von Hagn, described by contemporary witnesses as an introverted but friendly personality, lived until old age only for his art and never founded a family. He died on December 17, 1933 in Dresden at the age of 83.
Afterlife
Although he was well known throughout Germany at the turn of the century, his name and his art are only known today in Husum and those who know North Frisia. A few awkward historicizing portraits that are in the holdings of smaller local museums or even a school (portrait of Hermann Tast ) are incorrectly ascribed to him.
In the Nordfriesland district archive, there are letters from Richard von Hagn from 1914 and a poem dedicated by Hagn in the estate of the journalist and local poet Felix Schmeißer (1882–1953). A street in Husum was named after him.
literature
- Hagn, Richard von. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/1, sheets 1–30: Aagaard – Heideck. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1891, p. 447 ( archive.org ).
- Willy Oskar Dreßler (ed.): Dressler's art manual . Third volume: Tonkunst: the book of the living German artists, music scholars and music writers. Wasmuth, Berlin 1921.
- Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer: Richard von Hagn. A painter's life between Husum and Dresden. Edited by Nissenhaus, Nordfriesisches Museum, Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft 1983, ISBN 3-88042-216-8 .
- Richard von Hagn. In: Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer: Longing for Arcadia - Schleswig-Holstein artists in Italy. Heide 2009, pp. 314–321.
Web links
- Literature by and about Richard von Hagn in the catalog of the German National Library
- schiffahrtsmuseum-nf.de
- Artists see Schleswig, exhibition 2004/2005 in the Stadtmuseum Schleswig
Individual evidence
- ↑ z. B. From Venice. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 1886, oil on canvas, Museumsberg Flensburg.
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↑ Example: Church interior from the presidential monastery in Schleswig, 1927 ;
Participation in the exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bremen, 1900 ( Memento from April 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). - ↑ Picture of the Husum shipyard, around 1900 ( memento of the original from October 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Historical photos from Morsum / Sylt
- ↑ See accompanying picture: Halbmondwehle Südermarsch
- ^ A b Peter Kohlhoff: Richard von Hagn. In: Listen. 48/1988, p. 180.
- ↑ Hagn, Richard von . 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. 475 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Schleswig-Holstein History…… (not) a case for those in a hurry ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Kreis Nordfriesland ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hagn, Richard von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architectural and landscape painter of realism or naturalism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 21, 1850 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Husum |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 17, 1933 |
| Place of death | Dresden |