Carl Wagner (painter, 1796)
Carl Wagner (born October 19, 1796 in Roßdorf (Thuringia) , † February 10, 1867 in Meiningen ) was a German painter and representative of romantic landscape painting.
Live and act
The painter and etcher Carl Wagner, son of the poet Johann Ernst Wagner , was born in Roßdorf on October 19, 1796 . He lived here for the first eight years of his life. In 1804 the family moved to Meiningen, the royal seat of Saxony-Meiningen .
From 1813 to 1816 he studied at the forest academy in Drei 30acker and attended the forest academy in Tharandt . From 1817 to 1820 Wagner studied painting at the Dresden Art Academy . From 1822 to 1825 he used a stay in Italy to perfect his art. Later he would travel to Tyrol and Switzerland again and again to capture alpine landscape impressions. In 1825 he was appointed court painter and gallery inspector at the ducal court in Meiningen.
Most of his works are in the art collection of the Meiningen museums .
Wagner was one of the most important German landscape painters of the Romantic period. He was known to Ludwig Richter (1803-1884) and Adolf Schaubach . He was influenced by Joseph Anton Koch (1768–1839) and Caspar David Friedrich, among others .
Little is known about his family life, after severe strokes of fate and the death of his wife and both children, he lived very lonely until his death in Meiningen in 1867.
Illustrations (selection)
- In: Album of German artists in original etchings. - Düsseldorf: Buddeus, 1841. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
literature
- Oskar Alfred König: Carl Wagner 1796–1867. Crailsheim 1990.
- Albert Schröderer: The Thuringian romantic Carl Wagner. In: Thuringian flag. Monthly magazine for the Central German homeland. Volume 3, Issue 9, Scheiding 1934, pp. 607-608.
- Hermann Arthur Lier: Wagner, Karl Ernst Ludwig Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 528 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl Wagner in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wagner, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wagner, Karl Ernst Ludwig Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and representative of romantic landscape painting |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 19, 1796 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Roßdorf (Thuringia) |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 10, 1867 |
| Place of death | Meiningen |