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Carl Waagen (1800 – 26 November 1873 in Munich) was a German painter and lithographer.[1]

Life

Born in Hambourg, Waagen was the son of the painter Friedrich Ludwig Heinrich Waagen (1750-1825) and his wife Johanna Louise Alberti († 1807), his elder brother was the art scholar Gustav Friedrich Waagen (1794-1868). He studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden and the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, and he learned fresco painting at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München from 1820.[2] In Breslau, Waagen worked as a portrait painter and then for two years as a restorer at the Berlin Museum. After a stay in Rome from 1827 to 1828, he settled in Munich.[3]

He made portraits (oil paintings and miniatures), landscapes and history paintings as well as lithographs, among others with the portrait of the emperor Pedro I of Brazil.[4][5]

On 17 October 1831, he married the singer Nanette Schechner (1806-1860), of whom he also made a lithograph. Their sons were the ennobled Maj. Gen. Gustav von Waagen [de] (1832–1906), the painter Adalbert Waagen (1833–1898) as well as the geologist Wilhelm Heinrich Waagen (1841–1900).

References

Further reading

• Hyacinth Holland: Waagen, Karl. In Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). vol. 54, Duncker & Humblot [de], Leipzig 1908, S. 780 f.
• Waagen, Carl. In Hans Vollmer (ed.): Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. Vol. 35: Waage–Wilhelmson. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 1.

External links

• Carl Waagen at Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek

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[de] Carl Waagen

Carl Waagen (* 1800 in Hamburg; † 26. November 1873 in München) war ein deutscher Maler und Lithograf.

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- [en] Carl Waagen

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