Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz ( – ) was a
Baltic German
Baltic Germans (german: Deutsch-Balten or , later ) were ethnic German inhabitants of the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, in what today are Estonia and Latvia. Since their coerced resettlement in 1939, Baltic Germans have markedly declined ...
painter, primarily of portraits.
Biography
She was the daughter of the painter
August Matthias Hagen
August Matthias Hagen (23 February 1794 - 2 December 1878) was a Baltic German painter and graphic artist. He specialized in landscapes and cityscapes with figures.
Life
His father was a mill operator. Originally, he was apprenticed to be a ...
;
born while her parents were on a painting excursion. She displayed an early interest in drawing, so her father wasted no time in giving her lessons. After graduating from the public schools, she enrolled at the
University of Dorpat
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(now University of Tartu), where she was soon attracted to portrait painting.
After graduating, she received a grant to study in Germany. She began with
Friedrich Gonne in Dresden, then went to Munich, obtaining a position in the workshops of
Moritz Rugendas.
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from the University of Tartu Library. Three years later, she returned to Tartu and received another grant from Tsar
Nicholas I to study in Italy. This time, she was accompanied by her father, who hoped that the Italian climate would help his failing eyesight.
In 1854 she returned home,
already a well-known artist due to her participation in several exhibits throughout Europe. Soon after, she married the astronomer
Ludwig Schwarz, who later became Director of the local observatory. Her honeymoon consisted of an expedition to Southeast Siberia,
covering 600
verst
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Plurals and variants
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s, where her husband was part of a team exploring mineral resources and preparing a detailed map on behalf of the
Russian Geographical Society
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. As might be expected, she took the opportunity to sketch everything of interest.
In 1858, she became the first woman elected to the
Imperial Academy of Arts
The Russian Academy of Arts, informally known as the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, was an art academy in Saint Petersburg, founded in 1757 by the founder of the Imperial Moscow University Ivan Shuvalov under the name ''Academy of the T ...
.
After that, she spent much of her time in Saint Petersburg, participating in all the local and national exhibitions. Overall, she produced more than 700 portraits.
Selected paintings
File:Hagen-Schwarz, Julie. Kunstnik August Hageni portree.jpg, Portrait of her father (1870s)
File:Ludwig Schwarz 1870.jpg, Portrait of her husband (1870)
File:Хаген-Шварц портрет девочки.jpg, Portrait of a Young Girl (1870s)
File:Julie Hagen-Schwarz - Italian Maiden On Her Way To Rome.jpg, Italian Maiden on her Way to Rome (c.1850)
File:Schwarz 1851.jpg, Mandolin
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Player (1851)
See also
*
List of German women artists
This is a list of women artists who were born in Germany or whose artworks are closely associated with that country.
A
* Louise Abel (1841–1907), German-born Norwegian photographer
* Tomma Abts (born 1967), abstract painter
*Elisabeth von Adl ...
References
Further reading
* Epp Preem and Mart Sander, ''Julie Hagen-Schwarz 1824—1902'', LiteRarity, Tallinn 2009
External links
Works of Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarzin the
Estonian Art Museums Digital Archive
"From Livonia with Love", part 2, Julie Hagen-Schwarz@ LiveInternet blog. More paintings with biographies of her teachers and family members.
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1824 births
1902 deaths
People from Valmiera Municipality
People from Kreis Wolmar
Baltic-German people
19th-century German painters
19th-century Estonian painters
German women painters
Estonian women painters
19th-century women artists