Maria Dorothea Wagner

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Maria Dorothea Wagner (born January 10, 1719 in Weimar , † February 10, 1792 in Meißen ) was a German painter and draftsman of Saxon landscapes.

Life

Maria Dorothea Wagner was born in Weimar as the daughter of the court painter Johann Georg Dietrich . Her mother was Johanna Dorothea Dietrich, the daughter of the court painter Johann Ernst Rentsch from Weimar. Her brother Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich was also a painter, and other siblings worked at the Meissen porcelain factory as a porcelain painter. Her son Johann Georg Wagner (1744-1767) later devoted himself to landscape painting. She learned to draw under the guidance of her father in Weimar and later took private lessons from Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder. Even after her marriage to Johann Jakob Wagner (painter) , a porcelain painter at the Meißner Porzellanmanufaktur , she continued to work as an artist and studied at the Kassel Art Academy from 1776 to 1782 .

style

Wagner mostly drew with sepia or gouache , her paintings mostly show landscapes with a few staffage figures , which are characterized by an asymmetrical composition and added ruins, individual trees or waterfalls. In it, following the example of her brother, she tied in with the Dutch masters of the 17th century; her landscapes show a closeness to Johann Christian Klengel . Many of her works were copied by engravers such as Johann Michael Frey and Johann Gottlob Schumann and were used by Adrian Zingg , Karl Gottfried Traugott Faber or Johan Christian Clausen Dahl as models for their students long after their death. Next to Johanna Marianne Freystein , Wagner was the only woman in Saxon landscape painting, was one of the few commercially successful female artists of the 18th century and took a recognized place among her male colleagues.

plant

Maria Dorothea Wagner - Landscape with a waterfall , around 1726
  • Ascending ravine on the river, 1726, tempera, Städel Museum , Frankfurt / Main , graphic collection
  • Landscape with a waterfall, around 1726, tempera, Städel Museum, Frankfurt / Main
  • Im Mühlengrund, around 1747, oil on panel
  • Landscape with a thatched hut, 1776, red chalk over graphite, Staatliche Grafische Sammlung München
  • Landscape with ruins, oil on canvas, Anhaltinische Gemäldegalerie Dessau
  • Landscape with ruins (pendant), oil on canvas, Anhaltinische Gemäldegalerie Dessau
  • River landscape with rocky banks, oil on canvas, Anhaltinische Gemäldegalerie Dessau
  • River landscape with rocky banks as the sun sets, oil on canvas, Anhaltinische Gemäldegalerie Dessau
  • Mountain landscape with a wooden bridge, oil on panel, ibid .; Mountain landscape, oil on wood, Anhaltinische Gemäldegalerie Dessau
  • Homestead under trees, brushes in sepia, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , Kupferstich-Kabinett
  • Footbridge over river, brush in sepia, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Kupferstich-Kabinett
  • Castle on a rock above a river valley, tempera, Städel-Museum Frankfurt / Main, graphic collection
  • River landscape, oil on beech wood, Friedenstein Castle Foundation , Gotha
  • Mountain landscape with waterfall, oil on beech wood, Friedenstein Castle Foundation, Gotha
  • Rocky landscape with a water mill, oil on wood
  • River landscape with bridge and village, oil on panel
  • Cattle on pasture, graphite, Albertina Vienna , Graphic Collection

literature

  • Anke Fröhlich, Landscape painting in Saxony in the second half of the 18th century, Weimar 2002, pp. 227–230.
  • Johann Christian Hasche, Complicated description of Dresden with all its external and internal peculiarities, Vol. 1, Leipzig 1781, p. 740 online .
  • Bärbel Kovalevski (Ed.), Between Ideal and Reality, Ostfildern-Ruit 1999, p. 314f.
  • Wilhelm Loose: CVs of Meissen artists. In: Communications from the Association for the History of the City of Meißen. 11, 2, 1888, p. 90.
  • Georg Kaspar Nagler (ed.), Neues Allgemeine Künstler-Lexikon, Vol. 23, Linz ²1913, p. 441.
  • Gustav Edmund Pazaurek , Meißner porcelain painting of the 18th century, Stuttgart 1929, pp. 124–126.
  • Martina Sitt (Ed.), "Suitable for teaching young artists ...". The Beginnings of the Kassel Art Academy (1777-1830), 2nd edition, Hamburg 2018, pp. 98, 203.
  • Thieme-Becker : General Lexicon of the Visual Artists. Vol. 35, p. 43.

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personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Maria Dorothea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dietrich, Maria Dorothea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1719
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1792
Place of death Meissen