Gustav Friedrich Waagen

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.

Quotes

 * First delight, then instruct (original German: erst erfreuen, dann belehren).
 * 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
 * This quotation is occasionally attributed to Wilhelm von Humboldt, which appears to be erroneous; von Humboldt had quoted Schinkel and Waagen in a report.