Ferdinand Jagemann (24 August 1780,

Weimar Weimar is a city in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouri ...

– 9 January 1820, Weimar) was a German painter; known primarily for his portraits.

Life

He was the son of

Christian Joseph Jagemann Christian Joseph Jagemann (1735, Dingelstädt – 5 February 1804, Weimar) was a German scholar, court-advisor and librarian. Life Against his parents' wishes Christian became a monk, entering the Augustinian monastery at Erfurt in 1752. However, ...

, the librarian for Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. His sister, the actress

Karoline Jagemann Baroness Karoline Jagemann von Heygendorff (25 January 1777, in Weimar – 10 July 1848, in Dresden) was a major German tragedienne and singer. Her great roles included Elizabeth in '' Mary Stuart'' (1800) and Beatrice in ''The Bride of Messina ...

, became the mistress of

Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Karl August, sometimes anglicised as Charles Augustus (3 September 1757 – 14 June 1828), was the sovereign Duke of Saxe-Weimar and of Saxe-Eisenach (in personal union) from 1758, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach from its creation (as a political un ...

, who helped him begin his artistic studies with

Johann Heinrich Tischbein Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder, known as the Kasseler Tischbein, (3 October 1722, Haina – 22 August 1789, Kassel) was one of the most respected European painters in the 18th century and an important member of the Tischbein family of Ge ...

. He later worked with the

court painter A court painter was an artist who painted for the members of a royal or princely family, sometimes on a fixed salary and on an exclusive basis where the artist was not supposed to undertake other work. Painters were the most common, but the cour ...

Georg Melchior Kraus Georg Melchior Kraus (26 July 1737, in Frankfurt am Main – 5 November 1806, in Weimar) was a German painter. He was a co-founder of the Weimar Princely Free Drawing School, together with Friedrich Justin Bertuch, in 1776. Life He was th ...

and

Heinrich Friedrich Füger Heinrich may refer to: People * Heinrich (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name) * Heinrich (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) *Hetty (given name), a given name (including a list of peo ...

in Vienna. From 1802 to 1804, he was in Paris, where he may have studied with

Jacques-Louis David Jacques-Louis David (; 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away f ...

and

Jean-Baptiste Regnault Jean-Baptiste Regnault (9 October 1754 – 12 November 1829) was a French painter. Biography Regnault was born in Paris, and began life at sea in a merchant vessel. At the age of fifteen his talent attracted attention, and he was sent to ...

. He then returned to Weimar and became a portrait painter. He was also a professor at the Fürstlichen freien Zeichenschule. In 1805, he drew a portrait of

Friedrich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (, short: ; 10 November 17599 May 1805) was a German playwright, poet, and philosopher. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788–1805), Schiller developed a productive, if complicated, friendsh ...

on his deathbed. From 1806 to 1810, he was studying again; this time in Rome. After 1814, he and

Johann Heinrich Meyer Johann Heinrich Meyer (16 March 1760 – 11 October 1832) was a Swiss painter, engraver and art critic. He served as the second Director of the Weimar Princely Free Drawing School. A close associate of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, he was often re ...

served as co-directors of the Zeichenschule. He died of unknown causes at the age of thirty-nine.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as t ...

, whom Jagemann had painted on several occasions, delivered a eulogy for him at the Weimar

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. He was buried at the Jacobsfriedhof.

Selected portraits

Image:GoetheVonFerdinandJagemann1818.jpg, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1818 Image:Georg Nicolaus Nissen.jpg,

Georg Nikolaus von Nissen Georg Nikolaus von Nissen (sometimes Nicolaus or Nicolai; 22 January 1761 – 24 March 1826) was a Danish diplomat and music historian. He is the author of one of the first biographies of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, still used today as ...

, 1809 Image:Christoph Martin Wieland by Ferdinand Jagemann 1805 Cut.jpg,

Christoph Martin Wieland Christoph Martin Wieland (; 5 September 1733 – 20 January 1813) was a German poet and writer. He is best-remembered for having written the first ''Bildungsroman'' (''Geschichte des Agathon''), as well as the epic ''Oberon'', which formed the ba ...

, 1805 File:Carl August stehend.jpg, Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, 1805

Bibliography

* Hans Wahl, Anton Kippenberg: ''Goethe und seine Welt''. Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1932 S.272f

External links

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Family history
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jagemann, Ferdinand 1780 births 1820 deaths Artists from Weimar 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters German portrait painters Jagemann family