4419 - Theodor Hagen, Evening Mood

Theodor Hagen, Evening Mood A pond flanked by two poplars, with the sun reflected on its surface and the low-slung houses of a settlement in the background; an atmospheric landscape painting with a slightly impasto application of paint, oil on canvas, c. 1900, signed ‘Th. Hagen’ in the lower left-hand corner, minor signs of ageing, gilded stucco frame (with some damage), inner dimensions approx. 34 x 38.5 cm. Artist information: actually Theodor Joseph Hagen, German painter and graphic artist (1842, Düsseldorf - 1919, Weimar), 1863-68: studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Oswald Achenbach; 1871: appointed to the Grand Ducal Art School in Weimar, where he taught, amongst others, Christian Rohlfs; 1876-81 Head of the Weimar School of Art; from 1886 Director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle; a leading figure of the Weimar School of Painting; exhibited, amongst others, at the Berlin Academy, the German Artists’ Association in Weimar and the Glaspalast in Munich; memberships: the Munich Secession, the Berlin Secession and the German Artists’ Association; Source: Thieme Becker, AKL and Wikipedia.