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1794–1868

Gustav Friedrich Waagen (February 11, 1794 – July 15, 1868) was a German art historian and academic. In 1831 he was appointed as the Director of the Gallery for Paintings of the Prussian Royal Museum in Berlin; he held this position for the remainder of his life.

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From an 1828 proposal "On the Purpose of the Berlin Gallery" (Über die Aufgabe der Berliner Galerie) written by Waagen and Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Geismeier's source for this quotation is

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