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Hagedorn served as a court painter in Lisbon between 1844-1847, then settled in Rio de Janeiro from 1848 to 1853,completing a group of German artists who have documented the landscape and the national customs, traveling to Pernambuco, São Paulo, Bahia and Minas Gerais.
He first established his atelier at Rua São José Number 12. Later he moved to Rua do Teatro, Number 17. He took part in the Exposição Geral de Belas-Artes in 1859–1860.
He remained in Brazil for twenty years, working in Niterói, Petrópolis, Teresópolis, Juiz de Fora, Salvador and Recife. Although he found a good market for his productions, his presence seems to have been little noticed by the official circles and art critics of the time.
He worked specially with watercolor and tempera, and some of his landscapes were disseminated through Chromolithographs. His work is preserved mainly in the Hispanic Society of America, in New York, the National Library of Brazil, the Museu do Estado de Pernambuco, as well as in private collections.
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