Roland Hagenberg

[1] Inspired by the writings of Carl Gustav Jung and Sigmund Freud, Hagenberg began working as a nurse in a psychiatric clinic, the Steinhof, designed by architect Otto Wagner.

While researching the book Maler in Berlin[3] together with gallery owner Volker Diehl (with photos and texts by Hagenberg) he befriended the artists Martin Kippenberger, Jörg Immendorff, Markus Lüpertz, Georg Baselitz and neo-expressionist painters from the Junge Wilde group, Rainer Fetting, Bernd Zimmer and Helmut Middendorf.

The book Crosby Street about Hagenberg's time in New York and his collaboration with the Swiss artist Karl A. Meyer were published by Art In Flow Verlag Berlin in 2022.

As a freelance contributor to Vogue and Architectural Digest he introduced many architects in Europe who later received international recognition, including Kengo Kuma, Toyo Ito, Kazuyo Sejima and Jun Aoki.

[12] The award-winning Storkhouse guest house[13][14] by Terunobu Fujimori[15] and outdoor sculptures by Hiroshi Hara, Kengo Kuma and Karl A. Meyer were initiated and produced by Hagenberg.