Life

As son of the librarian Christian Joseph Jagemann

Christian Joseph Jagemann

Christian Joseph Jagemann 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, he soon fled to Denmark, where he became a private tutor...

, he was brother to the actress Karoline Jagemann

Karoline Jagemann

Karoline Jagemann von Heygendorff was a major German tragic actress and singer. Her great roles included Elisabeth in Mary Stuart and Beatrice in The Bride of Messina...

. Karoline was mistress to Charles Augustus, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, who allowed Ferdinand to train with the Tischbein

Tischbein (family)

The Tischbeins were a family of German painters, most notably:*Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder, a.k.a. Kasseler Tischbein *Johann Friedrich August Tischbein, a.k.a. Leipziger Tischbein...

 painters. He was also a student of the court-painter Georg Melchior Kraus

Georg Melchior Kraus

Georg Melchior Kraus was a German painter. A student of Johann Heinrich Tischbein, he was also a teacher himself , as well as an entrepreneur and friend of Goethe...

 in Weimar and Füger in Vienna. He then went on study trips to Paris and Italy. He was well-known as a portraitist, drawing Friedrich Schiller

Friedrich Schiller

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life , Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...

 on his deathbed. He died as a professor at the Fürstlichen freien Zeichenschule in Weimar, and his eulogy was given by Goethe (whom he had painted in 1805, 1806, 1817 and 1819).

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• Family history