Full Name: Hagedorn, Christian Ludwig von
Gender: male
Date Born: c. 1712-1713
Date Died: 1780
Place Born: Hamburg, Germany
Place Died: Dresden, Saxony, Germany
Home Country/ies: Germany
Subject Area(s): connoisseurship
Career(s): art collectors
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.