”Creations of the professor’s fertile mind” – August Hagen’s artists’ novels
August Hagen (1798–1889), professor for history of art and aesthetics at the Prussian university of Königsberg, is the author of a series of historical novels on the subject of artists’ lives. Pretending to be transliterations of newly discovered or translated historical sources, Hagen re-wrote and...
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Department of Art History, University of Birmingham
2020-12-01
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| Series: | Journal of Art Historiography |
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| Online Access: | https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/huebner1.pdf |