Karl Hagedorn (11 September 1889 – 1969), who signed himself Hagedorn, was a painter and illustrator. He was born in

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in 1889 but settled in

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, England, in 1905.

Biography

Hagedorn was educated in Berlin, and at Manchester School of Technology, Manchester School of Art, the

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, and in Paris, under

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. Hagedorn became a leading figure in the Manchester art scene showing regularly at the Society of Modern Painters in the city, and also, from 1913 onwards, at the

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and the

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. He was naturalised as a British citizen in 1914, and served in the

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during

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. Hagedorn provided illustrations for the Empire Marketing Board,

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and the ''

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'' and also worked as a part-time art teacher at Epsom School of Art. He also taught at the

. During

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, he sold pictures of military subjects to the United Kingdom Government's War Artists' Advisory Committee. During the war, Hagedorn also worked for the Recording Britain project, producing views of Middlesex and Derbyshire, where he lived for a time. Hagedorn's early works show Cubist and

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influences, although he later adopted a more conventional style. Some of his works are in the collections of Manchester City Art Gallery, the

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, The Wellcome Library, the Imperial War Museum, and the United Kingdom

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holds three examples. Hagedorn died in 1969. An exhibition, '' Manchester's First Modernist: Karl Hagedorn 1889-1969'', was held at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, in 1994.

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Cover of the Summer 1929 edition
of ''The Radio Times'', dated August of that year, by Hagedorn

by his friend Randolph Schwabe {{DEFAULTSORT:Hagedorn, Karl 1889 births 1969 deaths Place of death missing Painters from Berlin Artists from Manchester 20th-century German painters 20th-century British illustrators British Army personnel of World War I Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom 20th-century war artists 20th-century British war artists 20th-century British painters

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