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Friedrich Hagedorn (c. 1814–1889) was a German painter who was active in Brazil. After twenty years of residence in the country, he then returned to Germany, his homeland. His production was relatively plentiful and always attentive to the discovery of new landscapes. He was born and died in Germany.


Biography

After having been a court painter in
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between 1844 and 1847, he settled in Rio de Janeiro from 1848 to 1853, completing a group of German artists who have documented the landscape and the national customs, traveling to Pernambuco, São Paulo, Bahia and Minas Gerais. He immediately installed his atelier at Rua São José, nr. 12, and started painting. Later he moved to Rua do Teatro, nr. 17. He took part in the Exposição Geral de Belas-Artes in 1859–1860. He remained in Brazil for twenty years, working in
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and Recife. Although he found a good market for his productions, his presence seems to have been little noticed by the official circles and art critics of the time. He worked specially with watercolor and tempera, and some of his landscapes were disseminated through Chromolithographs. His work is preserved mainly in the Hispanic Society of America, in New York, the National Library of Brazil, the
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, as well as in private collections.


Gallery

File:Frederick Hagedorn - Vue de Rio de Janeiro-1.JPG, View of Rio de Janeiro I File:Frederick Hagedorn - Vue de Rio de Janeiro (2).JPG, View of Rio de Janeiro II File:Friedrich Hagedorn - Vista do Rio de Janeiro.jpg, View of Rio de Janeiro. Watercolor. File:Friedrich Hagedorn - Vista da fazenda de Correias.jpg, View of Correias farm File:Friedrich Hagedorn - Fazenda Santa Cruz.jpg, View of Santa Cruz farm File:Frederick Hagedorn - Vue de Rio de Janeiro (2)-1.JPG, View of Rio de Janeiro. Gouache


See also

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Emil Bauch Emil Bauch (1823 in Hamburg, Germany – after 1874 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) was a German painter, lithographer and teacher who came to reside in the city of Rio de Janeiro. He painted panoramic city scenes and portraits, as well as some view ...


References

;Attribution *''This article is based on the translation of the corresponding article of the Portuguese Wikipedia. A list of contributors can be found there at the'
History
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* 1814 births 1889 deaths Expatriates in Portugal Expatriates in Brazil 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters German landscape painters {{Germany-painter-stub