Johann Friedrich Wagner (painter)

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Johann Friedrich Wagner: Wasserstelz in Aargau, 1840

Johann Friedrich Wagner (born July 11, 1801 (baptism date) in Stuttgart , † after 1850 in America ) was a German painter , draftsman and lithographer .

Life

Johann Friedrich Wagner was born in Stuttgart in 1801. In 1834 he settled in Bern as a landscape painter . After marrying the bourgeois daughter Johanna Ziegler, he opened a lithographic studio there and published single sheets and lithographic series. In 1850 he emigrated to North America . The further fate is unknown. Of particular architectural historical interest are the incomplete views of Swiss castles and palaces , which from 1840 appeared loose in deliveries with ten sheets in a blue box with accompanying texts. By July 1842, 120 views had appeared.

Lithographic series

  • Carl Adolf Otth : Esquisses africaines, dessinées pendant un voyage à Alger et lithographiées par Adolphe Otth. 30 lithographic plates and portrait. JF Wagner, lithographic studio, Bern 1838.
  • Views of Swiss castles, palaces and ruins drawn from nature. JF Wagner, lithographic studio, Bern 1840.
  • Views of all castles, palaces and ruins in Switzerland. JF Wagner, lithographic studio, Bern 1840–1844 ( digitized Hathitrust )
  • Adolf v. Graffenried, Ludwig v. Stürler (together with JF Wagner's lithography company): Swiss wood construction. Architecture Suisse, or choix de maisons rustiques des alpes du canton de Berne. Bern 1844. (Large folio in multi-color printing. In libraries of the most important architecture schools in Europe.)
  • Franziska Möllinger : Daguerrotyped views of the capitals and the most beautiful areas of Switzerland. Self-published, 1844.

literature

  • Hans Ott: Johann Friedrich Wagner and the romantic castle image. In: News from the Swiss Castle Association (= Revue de l'Association Suisse pour Châteaux et Ruines = Rivista dell'Associazione Svizzera per Castelli e Ruine ). Volume (year): 33 (1960), issue 3, p. 22 f. (PDF; 1.91 MB).

Web links

Commons : Johann Friedrich Wagner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniel Stockhammer: The invented national style - On the foreign construction of the "Swiss House" at the transition from vedute painting to building research in the early 19th century. In: Chalet Suisse. Accompanying brochure for the special exhibition at Hünegg Castle 2016, pp. 33, 40. (PDF file)
  2. ^ Möllinger, Franziska. ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On the website of the Swiss Photo Foundation , accessed on August 8, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fotostiftung.ch
  3. ↑ Urs Tillmanns: Franziska Möllinger - the first female photographer in Switzerland. In: fotointern.ch , August 18, 2013, accessed on August 8, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Johann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, lithographer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH after 1850