Dictionary of Art HistoriansFull Name
Hagedorn, Christian Ludwig von
Gender
Date Born
c. 1712-1713
Date Died
1780
Place Born
Place Died
Home Country
Subject Area
Career
Overview
Connoisseur, esthetician and collector. Influential author during the Enlightenment for art historians (J. von Schlosser, 1924)
Selected Bibliography
Lettre à un amateur de la peinture. Dresden, 1755. Betrachtungen über die Mahlerey. 2 vols. Leipzig, J. Wendlern, 1762.
Sources
Metzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon: zweihundert Porträts deutschsprachiger Autoren aus vier Jahrhunderten. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1999, pp. 138-139.