Ferdinand Wagner (painter, 1847)

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Ferdinand Wagner, At the source (oil on canvas, 150 × 92 cm)

Ferdinand Wagner (born January 27, 1847 in Passau , † December 30, 1927 in Munich ) was a German painter .

Life

Hofbräuhaus am Platzl, historical view of the large hall of the Hofbräuhaus on a postcard; on the wall surface the painting "Patrona Bavariae" by Ferdinand Wagner

Ferdinand Wagner was the son of Ferdinand Wagner senior, who worked as a drawing teacher at the Passau trade school, and should not be confused with the Schwabmünchen artist Ferdinand Wagner . He received his first training from his father, then in Munich, followed by a stay in Italy in 1867/68.

After his return to Germany, he attracted attention with the painting of the former tenor-mayer in Munich, and as a result he received numerous orders as a decorative painter . In 1889, Wagner acquired Veste Niederhaus , previously dedicated as a barracks, and sold it to the painter Eduard Stroblberger in 1907 after falling out with local politicians in the course of planning the construction of the Luitpold Bridge . Wagner moved to Munich, where he died in 1927 at the age of 80. Wagner's body was transferred to Passau and buried in the high cemetery.

Of Ferdinand Wagner's works, the wall and ceiling paintings in the Munich Ratskeller and in the Deutsches Theater , the decoration of the dining room in the Drachenburg near Königswinter am Rhein , the decoration of the Roth and Luitpold cafés in Munich and the Tivoli restaurant in London received particular attention . To this end, he made numerous decorations for the steamship Fürst Bismarck in 1890/91 . In Passau, he created the two images of the state in the Great Town Hall and painted the town hall and, from 1886 to 1890, the Ratskeller. From 1892 he was busy with follow-up orders until 1916 with the painting of Ratibor Castle near Roth , where in 1894 he painted the main picture "Thriumph of Aphrodite". Other works still preserved are the facade paintings on the town hall of Schwyz (1891), the ceiling painting in the New Great Ballroom of Bückeburg Castle (1895), the decoration of the Great Hall in the Munich Hofbräuhaus (1897) and depictions in the tower hall of the New Town Hall in Hamburg (1899 ).

Ferdinand Wagner received numerous honors in Passau. In 1887 he was granted honorary citizenship, and Ferdinand-Wagner-Strasse and the Ferdinand-Wagner-Saal in the Ratskeller, which he painted, were named after him.

Works

  • The town hall of Schwyz with facade painting

  • The wedding of Emperor Leopold (Rathaussaal Passau)

  • Entry of Kriemhild (Rathaussaal Passau)

  • Ceiling painting in the small town hall of Passau

  • The ballroom of Bückeburg Castle

  • Diana (1904)

literature

  • Christian Hecht: Ferdinand Wagner - history painter. In: Ostbairische Lebensbilder (Volume II), Dietmar Klinger Verlag, Passau 2005, ISBN 3-932949-51-X .
  • Horst Ludwig (editor): Painting from the early days. Complete catalog (= Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen [Hrsg.]: Painting catalogs . Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen: Neue Pinakothek / Munich . Volume 6 ). Hirmer, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-7774-2940-6 , pp. 308–310 (two oil sketches for the wall paintings in the Passau town hall hall and a short biography of the painter).
  • Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 10, KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-23163-6 , page 280.
  • Historical Association of Upper Bavaria: Upper Bavarian Archive , Volumes 124–125, 2000, page 72.
  • Richard Schaffner: "Ashamed of your actions, you bridge men". In: Passauer Neue Presse of August 22, 2011, page 35.

Web links

Commons : Category: Ferdinand Wagner (Passau)  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Hecht: Ferdinand Wagner - Historienmaler , in: Ostbairische Lebensbilder, Volume II, p. 83, with express correction of the information in the Thieme-Becker artist lexicon
  2. ↑ The Münchner Ratskeller and its history  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in www.ratskeller.com@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ratskeller.com  
  3. ↑ Ferdinand Wagner depicts the course of a hunt by the knight of the Drachenburg in the 14th century in five paintings ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in www.schloss-drachenburg.de  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schloss-drachenburg.de
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Passau
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1927
Place of death Munich