Carl Wagner
Carl Wagner (19 October 1796 in Roßdorf (Thüringen) - 10 February 1867 in Meiningen) was a German painter and representatives of the Romantic landscape painting.
Also recorded as Karl Ernst Ludwig Friedrich Wagner · Carl II Wagner · Karl Ernest Ludwig Friedrich Wagner · k. wagner
Carl Wagner

Carl Wagner · Paysages d’Italie: les peintres du plein air (1780-1830): Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 3 avril-9 juillet 2001, Centro internazionale d’arte e di cultura di Palazzo Te, Mantoue, 1er sept · Public domain
- Born
- 1796. · Roßdorf.
- Died
- 1867. · Meiningen.
- Nationality
- Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen.
- Occupation
- painter, etcher, exlibrist and artist.
- Education
- Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry Tharandt.
- Languages
- German.
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Carl Wagner (19 October 1796 in Roßdorf (Thüringen) - 10 February 1867 in Meiningen) was a German painter and representatives of the Romantic landscape painting.
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Carl Wagner studied at Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry Tharandt. The recorded working language is German. Places of work recorded in the authority are Meiningen. Work by Carl Wagner is recorded in the collections of Philadelphia Museum of Art, Bavarian State Painting Collections, National Museum in Warsaw, J. Paul Getty Museum and Huis van het boek.
On 19 October 1796 was the painter and etcher, Carl Wagner, son of the poet Johann Ernst Wagner, born in Roßdorf. He lived here for the first eight years of his life. 1804 the family moved to Meiningen, the royal capital of Saxe-Meiningen. • Illustration — around the walls of Rome, Kunsthalle Bremen From 1813 to 1816 he studied at the Academy of Forestry in Dreißigacker and attended the Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry in Tharandt. Wagner graduated from 1817 to 1820 to study 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 later travel to Vienna, and Switzerland, to capture alpine landscape impressions. 1825 he was appointed court painter and gallery-inspector at the ducal court in Meiningen. Most of his works are in the art collection of Meininger Museums. Wagner was one of the most important German painters of the Romantic landscape. He was known by Ludwig Richter (1803–1884) and Hermann Fechner. He was influenced, among others, by JA Koch (1768–1839) and Caspar David Friedrich. About his family life, little is known, after heavy blows of fate and the death of his wife and two children, he lived a very lonely until his own death in 1867 in Meiningen.
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1796
Carl Wagner was born on 19 October 1796.
1867
Carl Wagner died on 10 February 1867.
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Roßdorf.
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• In:album by German artists in Originalradirungen- Düsseldorf. Buddeus, 1841. The Digitized output of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
![Huflattich. Pinsel in Braun über Bleistift auf Bütten. 26,2 × 25,5 cm. Oben rechts bezeichnet und datiert: Meiningen d. 3 t Aug. 42 d[?] durchsichtig v. d. Sonne. Unten rechts bezeichnet: ad N[aturam].](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Carl_Wagner_Huflattich_1842.jpg/800px-Carl_Wagner_Huflattich_1842.jpg)
Huflattich. Pinsel in Braun über Bleistift auf Bütten. 26,2 × 25,5 cm. Oben rechts bezeichnet und datiert: Meiningen d. 3 t Aug. 42 d[?] durchsichtig v. d. Sonne. Unten rechts bezeichnet: ad N[aturam].
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Carl Wagner - Ludwig van Beethoven (nach Waldmüller) - 15453 - Bavarian State Painting Collections
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The authorities additionally record the headings Karl Ernst Ludwig Friedrich Wagner, Carl II Wagner, Karl Ernest Ludwig Friedrich Wagner, k. wagner and karl wagner. His recorded language was German. Recorded with the occupation landscape painter. Recorded as painter, etcher, exlibrist and artist.
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Philadelphia Museum of Art, Bavarian State Painting Collections, National Museum in Warsaw and J. Paul Getty Museum
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