Cornelius Wagner

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Cornelius Wagner (painted by Werner Schramm , 1951)

Cornelius "Corny" Wagner (born August 10, 1870 in Dresden , † August 26, 1956 in Söcking near Starnberg ) was a German landscape and marine painter .

He was a figurative painter and is assigned to the Düsseldorf School of Painting . He created more than 100 oil paintings , oil studies, watercolors , gouaches , drawings and numerous works for public buildings, etc. a. Painting of the station hall in Duisburg (1935). His works were acquired by museums in the cities of Düsseldorf , Cologne , Koblenz and Oldham ( England ) as well as the German Maritime Museum in Bremen.

Life

Cornelius Wagner was the son of the history and marine painter Karl Wagner and brother of the portrait painter Juliette Wagner . At the age of 15, Wagner came to the Düsseldorf Art Academy (studied until 1895) and was a student of Eugen Dücker . He went on study trips to the West Indies (1897) and Argentina (1904). In 1906 he settled in Düsseldorf- Kaiserswerth and stayed there until 1955. Wagner was a friend of Wilhelm Degode and Max Clarenbach . In 1955 he moved to Lake Starnberg , where he died a year later at the age of 86.

Cornelius Wagner's work shows a clear affinity for water. Most of his work focused on ports, piers, ships and shipyards, and from 1920 also on shipping on the Rhine . A special focus continued to be on the German North Sea , especially on the Port of Hamburg .

Wagner only took part in a small number of exhibitions. He took part in collective exhibitions in the Rhineland, three of them in Düsseldorf and one in Zurich before the First World War. In April 1959, the Düsseldorf Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia dedicated a commemorative exhibition to him with pictures from the period 1889 to 1949, a cross-section of 60 years of his work.

Works (selection)

  • Ship at Mole (1901) Oil on canvas
  • Summer in Arosa (1917) Oil on canvas
  • Fishing Boats (1920) Oil on cardboard
  • Port of Hamburg (1925) Oil on canvas
  • Industrial Harbor in the Evening Light (1925) Oil on canvas
  • Rheinschlepper (1926) oil study
  • Moonrise (1926) oil on canvas
  • Les industries sur le Rhin (1930) Oil on canvas
  • The opened pontoon bridge over the Rhine near Kaiserswerth (1941) Oil on wood

literature

  • Düsseldorfer Heimatblätter, "Das Tor" , Volume 25, 1959, Issue 7: pp. 121–124
  • Scholl, Lars U. (2005). In: Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv Nature has to pass through the heart in order to become art : on the 50th anniversary of the death of the marine painter Cornelius Wagner (1870–1956) ISSN  0343-3625 , Vol. 28: pp. 343–374
  • Scholl, Lars U. (2006). The marine painter Cornelius Wagner died 50 years ago . In: Deutsche Schiffahrt , ISSN  0723-9440 , Vol. 28 (1): pp. 8-10
  • Scholl, Lars U. (2006). Water, shipping, coastal landscapes: on the 50th anniversary of the death of the marine painter Cornelius Wagner (1870–1956). In: Heimat-Jahrbuch Wittlaer , Vol. 27: pp. 150–173
  • Cornelius Wagner, Galerie G. Paffrath: Cornelius Wagner, August 10, 1870 Dresden-26. 8. 1956 Söcking: September-October 1975, Galerie G. Paffrath, 1975

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personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Cornelius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wagner, Corny (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape and marine painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1956
Place of death Söcking