Carl Wagner (painter)
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Carl Wagner was a German
painter
and representatives of the Romantic
landscape painting.
From 1813 to 1816 he studied at the Academy of Forestry in Dreißigacker and attended the Tharandt Forest Academy. Wagner graduated from 1817 to 1820 to study painting at the Dresden Art Academy. From 1822 to 1825, he took advantage of a stay in Italy for artistic perfection. Again and again he will later travel to Vienna
, and Switzerland, to capture alpine landscape impressions.
1825 he was appointed court painter and gallery-inspector at the ducal court in Meiningen.
Most of his works is in the art collection of Meininger Museums.
Wagner was one of the most important German painters of the Romantic landscape. He was known by Ludwig Richter (1803–1884) and Hermann Fechner. He was influenced, among others, by JA Koch (1768–1839) and Caspar David Friedrich.
About his family life, little is known, after heavy blows of fate and the death of his wife and two children, he lived a very lonely until his own death in 1867 in Meiningen.
Germany
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painter
Painting
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and representatives of the Romantic
Romanticism
Romanticism was an artistic, literary and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe, and gained strength in reaction to the Industrial Revolution...
landscape painting.
Life and work
On 19 October 1796 was the painter and etcher, Carl Wagner, son of the poet Johann Ernst Wagner, born in Roßdorf. He lived here the first eight years of his life. 1804 the family moved to Meiningen, the royal capital of Saxe-Meiningen.From 1813 to 1816 he studied at the Academy of Forestry in Dreißigacker and attended the Tharandt Forest Academy. Wagner graduated from 1817 to 1820 to study painting at the Dresden Art Academy. From 1822 to 1825, he took advantage of a stay in Italy for artistic perfection. Again and again he will later travel to Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
, and Switzerland, to capture alpine landscape impressions.
1825 he was appointed court painter and gallery-inspector at the ducal court in Meiningen.
Most of his works is in the art collection of Meininger Museums.
Wagner was one of the most important German painters of the Romantic landscape. He was known by Ludwig Richter (1803–1884) and Hermann Fechner. He was influenced, among others, by JA Koch (1768–1839) and Caspar David Friedrich.
About his family life, little is known, after heavy blows of fate and the death of his wife and two children, he lived a very lonely until his own death in 1867 in Meiningen.
Illustrations (selection)
- In:album by German artists in Originalradirungen- Düsseldorf. Buddeus, 1841. Digitized output of the University and State Library Düsseldorf