Aga vom Hagen

Augusta ("Aga") Clara Elisabeth Gräfin vom Hagen (January 2, 1872, in Möckern – April 8, 1949, in Schlieben) was a German painter, author and art patron.

She is the daughter of Hilmar Friedrich Anton Graf vom Hagen and his wife Martha von der Schulenburg and was born in 1872 at Schloss Möckern.

Countess Aga vom Hagen studied painting with Reinhold Lepsius and Lovis Corinth and other renowned artists of her time.

There, two years later in Brussels, she met the writer Carl Einstein, who had been married to Maria Ramm since 1913 and was the father of a young daughter.

[2] During this time, Aga vom Hagen lived together with Carl Einstein, whose marriage wasn't ended until 1923,[3] at Matthäikirchstraße 14 in Berlin-Frohnau.