Werner Hager (art historian)

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Werner Erwin Herwarth Gerold Hager (born July 13, 1900 in Dresden ; † May 9, 1997 in Oberhausen , Upper Bavaria ), Protestant , was a German art historian and university professor .

Life

Werner Hager, who was born in Dresden in 1900 as the son of officer Max Georg Hager, who died in France in 1914, and his wife Mathilde, née Duvall von Vevey, grew up in Strasbourg until the outbreak of the First World War . He then returned to Dresden with his family, where he graduated from high school in 1919 . He then turned to studying art history at the universities of Geneva , Basel , Munich and Berlin , which he completed in Basel in 1927 with the academic degree of Dr. phil. completed.

Hager then held a lectureship at the University of Wisconsin – Madison in the US state of Wisconsin between 1929 and 1930 . In 1931, Hager took up a position as a research assistant at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . Werner Hager, who joined the NSDAP in 1933 , completed his habilitation there in 1936 in art history. In the following year he moved to the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität as a private lecturer in art history , in 1943 he was appointed extraordinary professor , in 1950 he was appointed full professor , and in 1965 he retired . In addition, he temporarily held the office of Vice President of the Westphalian Art Association .

Werner Hager, who stood out in particular through his fundamental contributions to the baroque and 19th century art, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Lille in 1965, the Officier des Palmes Académiques in 1967 , and in 1982 the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon.

Werner Hager was married to Margarete, born Heinl, with whom he had a child. He died in 1997 at the age of 96.

Fonts

  • The honorary statues of the popes, PhD thesis , Poeschel & Trepte, Leipzig, 1929
  • The historical event image: Contribution to a typology of the secular image of history up to the Enlightenment, habilitation thesis , Neuer Filser-Verlag, Munich, 1939
  • Master portraits from the Dürer period, Frick, Vienna, 1940
  • Diego Velázquez : The handover of Breda, Reclam, Stuttgart, 1956
  • Baroque: Sculpture and Painting, Holle, Baden-Baden, 1974
  • Baroque architecture, Holle, Baden-Baden, 1976
  • History in Pictures: Studies on 19th Century History Painting, Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim, New York, 1989

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personal data
SURNAME Hager, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hager, Werner Erwin Herwarth Gerold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1997
Place of death Oberhausen , Upper Bavaria