Julius Wagner (painter)

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Julius Wagner (born January 7, 1818 in Schleswig , † 1879 in Antwerp ) was a German genre painter .

Life

The son of a tailor completed a four-year painting apprenticeship in Schleswig. As a decorative painter, he was involved in the design of the representative rooms of the new palace in Braunschweig and the reception room of the palace in Stettin. Here he entered the service of the building officer Scabell, who took him to Berlin in 1845 and offered him the opportunity to visit the art academy two days a week.

With the beginning of the Schleswig-Holstein uprising , he joined the Freikorps of Major Ludwig von der Tann-Rathsamhausen on April 17, 1848 and a few days later witnessed the consequences of the naval battle of Eckernförde . The drawings he made here were published by the Leipziger Illustrirte Zeitung . After the dissolution of the Freikorps, Wagner served in the 6th Jäger Corps until 1851.

The collaboration in the artistic design of the lodge house in Magdeburg gave him the means to continue his studies in Berlin. In 1852 he followed the call of the art academy in Antwerp and studied under Nicaise de Keyser . He joined his compatriots Hans Nicolai Sunde from Husum and Moritz Delfs from Segeberg and stayed in Antwerp for the rest of his life after his marriage.

Fisher children on their way home , 1856

Wagner initially stayed afloat in Antwerp as a genre painter and switched to small-format and undemanding genre motifs, with which he supplied the Berlin academy exhibitions and the art associations in Magdeburg, Hamburg, Breslau, Rostock and Kiel, and which were sold through art dealers to America. In 1857 he took part in the opening exhibition of the Kiel art gallery with the pleasing genre painting “The Little Fisherman and His Little Brother” . In order to free himself from the dependency of the art trade, he traveled to his homeland in 1869 and asked the chairman of the Schleswig-Holstein Art Association, district court notary Bernd Feddersen, to purchase the large-format painting Hessischer Hochzeitsbitter for the Kiel Kunsthalle. This purchase spurred Wagner on to late international successes at exhibitions in Belgium, at the Crystal Palace in London and at the 1873 World Exhibition in Vienna.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A detailed biography in the Kieler Zeitung of January 24, 1875
  2. ↑ Jens Ahlers (Ed.): Awakening and Civil War, Schleswig-Holstein 1848–1851. Vol. 1, Kiel 2012, pp. 260ff.
  3. ↑ Jürgen Ostwald: The opening exhibition of the Kiel art gallery in 1857 . In: Schleswig-Holstein , No. 4, 1983, pp. 2-8.
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Schleswig
DATE OF DEATH 1879
Place of death Antwerp