Karl Hagemeister

Karl Hagemeister (12 March 1848 – 5 August 1933) was a German landscape painter.

Life He was the son of a fruit grower and developed an early interest in nature from the forested, watery surroundings of his birthplace in Werder. He trained as a teacher in Köpenick, then went to teach elementary school in Berlin, where he caught the attention of landscape painter Ferdinand Bellermann, who saw him at work in Schönhausen Palace park.

Bellermann convinced Hagemeister to give up his plans to become a drawing teacher and be an artist instead, helping him to obtain a position in the studios of Friedrich Preller. From 1871 to 1873, he received classically oriented training at Preller's Weimar Princely Free Drawing School, Most of what he had earned disappeared in the hyper-inflation following World War I. In 1923, he was named a member of the Academy of Arts. He never fully recovered from his illness and died while living with his brother at the family farmhouse.

Selected paintings

Writings Carl Schuch. Sein Leben und seine Werke (Carl Schuch, His Life and His Work), Cassirer, Berlin 1913 Kleine Selbstbiographie (Short Autobiography), Werder, 1928