Otto Wagner (painter, 1803)

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Otto Wagner (born December 29, 1803 in Torgau , † December 1, 1861 in Niederlößnitz ) was a German landscape and architecture painter .

Life

Otto Wagner was a son of the Torgau hydraulic engineering commissioner Christian Friedrich W. (1774/1838) and of Juliane Georgine geb. Wetzkek. After 1810 the family moved to Dresden. After finishing school, Wagner attended the art academy there , where he became one of Johann Gottfried Jentzsch's students .

In the years 1830/1831 Wagner undertook a study trip through Germany and Switzerland to Italy, where he stayed in Rome for a long time. In later years he also worked as a decorative painter for the court stage in Dresden Hof . In his hometown, Wagner was among other things a member of the artist group Rudel-Verein (also known as the Saturday Club ).

His brother was the Dresden painter and architectural decorator Georg Wagner (1810–1838), who also appeared as a specialist author.

Works

Otto Wagner produced a large number of pictorial views from the Kingdom of Saxony and Thuringia in the style of Canletto . Most of them appeared in the series The Picturesque and Romantic Germany ; his views of Thuringia in its 3rd section, which was edited by Ludwig Bechstein and bears the title walks through Thuringia . The first edition appeared in Leipzig in 1838 , and several new editions have followed to this day. Examples are the templates for the steel engravings City of Blankenburg & the ruins of Greifenstein Castle , Arnstadt and Der Kyffhäuser . As a painter in this renowned series, he also had contact with Ludwig Richter during this time . In 1843 he participated in the publication of the children's book Die Ammen-Uhr. From the boy's wonder horn. In woodcuts based on drawings by Dresden artists .

Otto Wagner died on December 1, 1861 at Wackerbarths Ruh ' in today's Radebeul district of Niederlößnitz near Dresden, at the time the hospital of a Dr. Matthiae.

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Böttcher : Wagner, Otto. In: Important historical personalities of the Düben Heath. AMF, No. 237, 2012, p. 103.

Web links

Commons : Otto Wagner (painter, 1803)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to different information, Otto Wagner died in Dresden .
  2. ↑ Selection of views from Otto Wagner's Ferder in the UrMEL Collection
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape and architecture painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Torgau
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1861
Place of death Niederloessnitz