Theodor Hagen

Theodor Hagen studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Training under Oswald Achenbach is recorded. Anton Nissen is recorded as having studied under Theodor Hagen. The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is painting. Places of work recorded in the authority are Scheveningen. Employment is recorded with Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and Weimar Saxon-Grand Ducal Art School. Work by Theodor Hagen is recorded in the collections of Bavarian State Painting Collections, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Führermuseum, Alte Nationalgalerie and Schloss Weimar.

• Name — Theodor Hagen • Born — 24 May 1842 • Birthplace — Düsseldorf, German Confederation • Died — 12 February 1919 • Place of death — Weimar, German Empire • Field — Painting • Training — Kunstakademie Düsseldorf • Movement — Impressionism • Patrons — Alfred Lichtwark

He was born in Düsseldorf into an old, established Rhenish merchant family. From 1863 to 1868, he studied with Oswald Achenbach at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. In 1871, he was summoned to the Weimar Saxon-Grand Ducal Art School to teach landscape painting as a replacement for Max Schmidt, who had left to take another position. Three years later, he received a permanent appointment. He was head of the art department from 1876 to 1881, but grew tired of his administrative duties and returned to teaching. His best-known students were Christian Rohlfs, Hanns Diehl, and Franz Bunke. He was one of the founders of German Impressionism. After trying out several styles during his early years, he became attracted to the plein-air painting of the French Barbizon School. Through his friendship with Alfred Lichtwark, the first Director of the Kunsthalle Hamburg, he spent some time there, painting scenes of the harbor and the North Sea. From 1893, he was a member of the Munich Secession and, from 1902, the Berlin Secession. He died in Weimar. A street in Weimar has been named the Theodor-Hagen-Weg in his honor and his home (now Trierer Straße 36) is a municipal monument.