Carl Wagner (painter)

Carl Wagner ( * October 19, 1796 in Roßdorf ( Thuringia), † February 10, 1867 in Meiningen, Germany ) was a German painter and representatives of the romantic landscape painting.

Life and work

On October 19, 1796 the painter and etcher Carl Wagner, son of the poet Johann Ernst Wagner, born in Roßdorf. He lived there for the first eight years of his life. 1804 the family moved to Meiningen, the residence of Saxe- Meiningen.

From 1813 to 1816 he studied at the Academy of Forestry in Dreißigacker and attended the Academy of Forestry Tharandt. From 1817 to 1820 Wagner holds a degree in painting at the Dresden Art Academy. From 1822 to 1825 he took advantage of a stay in Italy for artistic perfection. Again and again, he will travel later to Tyrol and Switzerland to capture alpine scenic impressions. 1825 he was appointed court painter and gallery inspector at the ducal court in Meiningen.

Most of his works is in the Art Collection of Meiningen Museums.

Wagner was one of the major German landscape painters of Romanticism. He was acquainted with Ludwig Richter (1803-1884) and Hermann Fechner. He was influenced among others by JA Koch (1768-1839) and Caspar David Friedrich.

Little is known about his family life, after heavy blows of fate and the death of his wife and two children he was still very lonely until his own death in 1867 in Meiningen.

Illustrations (selection)

• In: German artist album in Originalradirungen. - Dusseldorf: . Buddeus, 1841 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf