Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Wegener

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Wegener (born April 20, 1812 in Dresden , † July 11, 1879 in Gruna near Dresden) was a German animal and landscape painter of the Romantic period .

Life

Coming from a poor background, Wegener first learned the printing trade. He was a student at the Copenhagen Art Academy for a short time , but had to break off his studies due to lack of money and earned his living as a lithographer , mainly in northern Germany ( Kiel and Hamburg ). An inheritance made it possible for him to return to Dresden and to resume his studies at the local art academy . There he was a student of Johan Christian Clausen Dahl and Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein . From 1840 onwards, his economic situation improved after the Saxon Art Association bought a painting by Wegener. In 1860 he was appointed Saxon court painter .

Works (selection)

image	title	year	Size / material	Exhibition / collection / owner
	Ice removal from the Great Garden in Dresden	1841	39 × 56 cm, oil on canvas
	Fallow deer	1847	31.5 × 24 cm, oil on canvas	Berlin, National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage, National Gallery ; Inventory no. WS 253
	View of the valley	1854	64 × 85 cm, oil on canvas
	A toy spaniel, a dwarf spitz and a maltese next to a basket	1855	93.4 × 129.5 cm, oil on canvas
	Two King Charles dogs in front of Dresden	around 1855	58 × 76 cm, oil on canvas

literature

• Hermann Arthur Lier:  Wegener, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 783 f.

Web links

• Wegener's photography (Saxon State Library)