Simon Wagner (painter)
Simon Wagner (born August 25, 1799 in Stralsund , † June 17, 1829 in Dresden ; full name Gustav Simon Ludwig Wagner ) was a German genre painter .
Life
Simon Wagner was born in Stralsund in 1799. His family moved to Damgarten around 1801 , where he was confirmed in 1816. Soon afterwards he will have gone to Dresden, where he studied art. Study trips took him to Salzburg and Tyrol . One of his friends was the writer and painter Wilhelm von Kügelgen (1802–1867). His posthumously published work “Memories of Young People” has already been published hundreds of times. In this he also describes his encounters with Simon Wagner, who was nicknamed Schill and apparently did not have an easy life. His drawings were quite qualitative and also found a positive echo in better circles. His realistic style exactly matched the conception of art at the time. But on June 17, 1829 Wagner died of a lung disease.
Works (selection)
- Luther portrait after Cranach, 1821 for the church in Damgarten , stolen in 1994
- Self-portrait, undated
- Scenes from the life of Dürer, 1829
literature
- Bärbel Kovalevski: Facets of Romanticism - Thoughts on the artistic work of Simon Wagner. In: The world on a large and small scale - art and science in the vicinity of Alexander von Humboldt and August Most. Berlin 2009. pp. 386-400.
- Thieme-Becker : General Lexicon of the Visual Artists. Vol. 35, p. 52.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Wagner, Simon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wagner, Gustav Simon Ludwig (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German genre painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 25, 1799 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stralsund |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 17, 1829 |
| Place of death | Dresden |