Background
On 19 October 1796 was the painter and etcher, Carl Wagner, son of the poet Johann Ernst Wagner, born in Roßdorf.
On 19 October 1796 was the painter and etcher, Carl Wagner, son of the poet Johann Ernst Wagner, born in Roßdorf.
From 1813 to 1816 he studied at the Academy of Forestry in Dreißigacker and attended the Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry in Tharandt.
He lived here the first eight years of his life. 1804 the family moved to Meiningen, the royal capital of Saxe-Meiningen. 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.
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.
In:album by German artists in OriginalradirungenDüsseldorf. Buddeus, 1841. Digitized output of the University and State Library Düsseldorf.
