Hugo Hagen

Hugo Hagen (1818 – 14 April 1871, Berlin) was a German sculptor.

Bust of Beethoven
Allegorical figure representing the Elbe River, on the Wrangelbrunnen.

Life

He was a student of Ludwig Wilhelm Wichmann. From 1842 to 1857, he was an assistant in the studios of Christian Daniel Rauch, where he contributed to creating the statues of Frederick the Great on the Unter den Linden, Albrecht Thaer at Humboldt University and Immanuel Kant in Königsberg. In 1865, he became the Director of the "Rauch-Museum". After the early death of Hermann Schievelbein, he helped complete the monument to Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom Stein. He also assisted Rudolf Siemering to complete Johann Gottfried Schadow's "Münzfrieses" (Coin Friezes) on the Old Berlin Mint.

Ironically, many of his own works were left incomplete when he died.

Selected major works

Sources

  • Peter Bloch: Bildwerke 1780-1910, Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, 1990
  • Ethos und Pathos. Die Berliner Bildhauerschule 1786-1914, Exhibition Catalog, by Peter Bloch, Sibylle Einholz und Jutta von Simson. Berlin, Mann, 1990 ISBN 3-7861-1597-4
  • J. Kuhn: Hagen, Hugo. In: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker (AKL). Vol.67, de Gruyter, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-598-23034-9, pgs.422–424

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