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Charlotte von Hagn (born 23 March 1809,
Charlotte von Hagn (born 23 March 1809, Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...
; Ulrike von Hase-Schmundt: ''Joseph Stieler : 1781 – 1858. Sein Leben u. sein Werk. Krit. Verzeichnis d. Werke''. Prestel, München 1971, , S. 148 f died 23 April 1891, Munich) was a German actress of the Biedermeier
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-era.
Early life
Hagn was a daughter of the businessman Karl von Hagn and his wife Josepha Schwab. Her younger brother was the painterLudwig von Hagn
Ludwig von Hagn (or Louis von Hagn; 23 November 1819 – 15 January 1898) was a German genre painter.
Biography
He was born in Munich, the son of a businessman Karl von Hagn and his wife Josepha Schwab. His older sister, Charlotte von Hagn, ...
.
Career
At her first appearance at the 1828 Munich Hoftheater, the audience applauded at once and she had huge successes at the Burgtheaters inVienna
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, Dresden
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, Berlin and Budapest
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From 1838 to 1846 she belonged to the Berlin Hofbühne. She worked in St Petersburg
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, Hamburg
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, Budapest
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and other cities and seems to have been celebrated everywhere she went. Her talent for comedy was apparently based on her beauty and demeanour. She was described as a witty and charming conversationalist, and she competed with Karoline Bauer; the theatre audiences were divided into "Hagnerians" and "Bauerians". She was much less well-suited to tragic roles. Her witty impromptu asides gave her the nickname of "the German Déjazet".
Personal life
In the spring of 1848 she married the landowner Alexander von Oven and retired from the stage, but she was divorced in 1851. She had an affair withFranz Liszt
Franz Liszt, in modern usage ''Liszt Ferenc'' . Liszt's Hungarian passport spelled his given name as "Ferencz". An orthographic reform of the Hungarian language in 1922 (which was 36 years after Liszt's death) changed the letter "cz" to simpl ...
, See also . who called her the concubine of two kings, and may have had an affair with Bavarian King Ludwig I
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. He commissioned a portrait of her from his court painter Joseph Karl Stieler
Joseph Karl Stieler (1 November 1781 – 9 April 1858) was a German painter. From 1820 until 1855 he worked as royal court painter of the Bavarian kings. He is known for his Neoclassical portraits, especially for the Gallery of Beauties at Nymp ...
in 1828 for his Gallery of Beauties
The Gallery of Beauties (german: Schönheitengalerie) is a collection of 36 portraits of the most beautiful women from the nobility and middle classes of Munich, Germany, painted between 1827 and 1850 (mostly by Joseph Karl Stieler, appointed co ...
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Death
After her divorce, Charlotte von Hagn lived for a time inGotha
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and then in Munich
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, where she died in April 1891. She was buried as Charlotte von Oven in the Alter Südfriedhof
The Alter Südfriedhof (''Old South Cemetery'') also known as "Alter Südlicher Friedhof" is a cemetery in Munich, Germany. It was founded by Duke Albrecht V as a plague cemetery in 1563 about half a kilometer south of the Sendlinger Ga ...
in Munich. Her grave has been preserved.
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