Michel Wagner

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Michel Wagner (born December 20, 1893 in Muschenried / Upper Palatinate , † December 3, 1965 in Munich ) was a German painter and sculptor . He was a member of the Jury-Free Art Exhibition and the New Group and is counted as part of the Lost Generation .

Life

Michel Wagner was born as the son of the farmer couple Georg and Barbara Wagner in simple circumstances. The rural and rural environment will often later form the motifs for his artistic work. At the age of 15 he left his parents' farm to begin an apprenticeship as a baker in Munich. He made the first drawings and sent a selection to Franz von Defregger . The answer was surprisingly encouraging.

In 1910 Wagner set out on foot from Munich to Hamburg. There he hired on a freighter. When the First World War broke out, he signed up for the Navy.

In 1921 the well-traveled decided to live by and with art. He professionalized his autodidactic skills as a student of Lovis Corinth and Stanislaus Stückgold . As early as 1923 he took part in the annual art exhibition in the Munich Glass Palace .

In 1923/1924 he went on a study trip to Brazil, about which the Kölnische Volkszeitung reported. After his return he married the painter Else Säulen and bought a house in Hohenschäftlarn near Munich.

In particular, the period from 1930 to 1933, marked by lively exhibition activity after the takeover by the Nazis , with the exception of an exhibition of the Munich Kunstverein abruptly ended in 1939th

After the collapse of Nazi rule, he took part in the first exhibition on modern painting in Bavaria, “Contemporary Painter” in the Schaezlerpalais in Augsburg. Until 1949 he was one of the few artists whose works were shown in all western zones of occupation. In 1954, 1955 and 1957 he took part in group exhibitions in Cairo, Rutherford and Rome.

In 1952 he moved to Munich with his wife. Michel Wagner died a year after his wife. He bequeathed his house in Hohenschäftlarn to Deutsche Künstlerhilfe .

Posthumously, Wagner took part in the special exhibition "Three Decades of New Group " as part of the Great Art Exhibition in Munich with the picture tightrope walker .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1923, 1931, 1932 Participation in the art exhibitions in the Glaspalast, Munich
  • 1930 Joint exhibition in the Kunsthalle Bremen
  • 1932 Berlin Secession , Berlin
  • 1932, 1933 Joint exhibitions by the artist group "Die Juryfrei", Munich
  • 1945 Participation in the exhibition "Painters of the Present", Schaezlerpalais, Augsburg
  • 1947, 1948 group exhibitions of the Neue Gruppe in the Städtische Galerie, Munich
  • 1949 Participation in the 2nd German Art Exhibition, Dresden
  • 1949 to 1966 annual participation in the Munich art exhibition, Munich
  • 1954/1955 participation in the exhibition "German Art", Alexandria and Cairo
  • 1956 Participation in the annual exhibition of the German Academy of the Arts , Berlin
  • 1977 Posthumous participation in the special exhibition "Three decades of the new group" in the Haus der Kunst, Munich

Works in public collections

literature

  • Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century , Volume 5, p. 66, Leipzig 1961
  • Brachmann's Lexicon of Munich Art. Munich painter in the 19th and 20th centuries Century , Volume 6, p. 450, Munich 1994
  • Michel Wagner. From expressive realism to constructive figuration , Galerie Bernd Dürr, Munich 1994

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michel Wagner: As a painter in Brazil (autobiographical report), Kölner Volkszeitung , July 26, 1930 (morning edition).
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Michel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wagner, Michl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Muschenried (Winklarn)
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 1965
Place of death Munich