Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz

Julie Wilhelmine Hagen- Schwarz (. * 15 Oktoberjul / October 27 1824greg on the Good Little Wrangelshof ( Väike Prangli ) in Tartu, Estonia, .. . † 7 Oktoberjul / October 20 1902greg in Tartu) was a Baltic- German painter.

Life and work

First lessons she received from her father, the painter August Matthias Hagen ( 1794-1878 ). Your further training took place in 1846 in Dresden with Friedrich Gonne what you was made possible by a grant from the Dorpat sculptor Franz Karl of Villebois.

Since 1848 she studied in Munich with the genre painter Moritz Rugendas and the portraitist Joseph Bernhardt.

Through sized three-year travel grant of Tsar Nicholas I was enabling it to go from 1851 to 1854 to Rome, where they at August known by its lighting effects Riedel further developed itself and among other things a genre painting entitled A Woman at the burning fireplace looking at her jewelry, painted.

In 1855 returned to Livonia, she married there with the astronomer Ludwig Schwarz, who later became director of the Dorpat Observatory. This accompanied them on a three -year expedition to eastern Siberia. She lived in Tartu, where she was very active as a portrait painter. 1858, she was appointed a member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts.

She was especially known for their incurred in the early days flower paintings and her later portraits of many Baltic personalities such as Karl Ernst von Baer and Christian Heinrich Pander, but also painted genre and landscape paintings as well as Sacred.