Background
His father, Josef Wagner (1901–1957), was an outstanding sculptor of the interwar and post-war eras. His mother, Marie Wagnerová–Kulhánková (1906–1983), as well as his brother, January Wagner (1941–2005), were also sculptors.
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Josef Wagner
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Josef Wagner studied architecture at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague.
Career
Born in Prague on 24 May 1938, he comes from an old artistic family. After graduation he devoted himself to the designing of housing and garden architecture, photography and scenography. Foreign almost 30 years he had been occupied with exhibition installations as head of the Exhibition Centre of the Union of Czechoslovak Visual Artists and as a collaborator of the National Gallery in Prague.
On his study travels he visited a number of European countries, particularly France, Italy, Switzerland, and Greece.
He has been living and working in Prague. Apart from some 800 oil paintings, he is the author of a number of drawings and graphics (Grand Diploma for Graphic International Biennial Exhibition of Tuzla, 2004).
He is the holder of the Award of the Czechoslovakian-Bavarian Artistic Society (1994), the Award of the Masaryk Academy of Art (1997), and the Rudolph II Prize for Artistic and Cultural Activities (1997). Out of a number of exhibitions in the Czechoslovakian Republican and abroad (France, Greece, Netherlands, Switzerland, United States of America, Germany), the following may be pointed out: 172 Pictures and Drawings by Josef Wagner, Art Centre of Athens, Athens, Greece (1988), and Joseph Wagner rétrospective de 1958-1997, Palais Bénédicte, Fécamp, France (1999).
Josef Wagner, Pictures, Drawings.
Státní galerie výtvarného umění v Chebu (State Gallery of Fine Arts in Cheb), Alšova jihočeská galerie Hluboká nad Vltavou (Aleš Gallery of South Bohemia in Hluboká nad Vltavou), Galerie Vysočiny Jihlava (The Gallery of Vysočina Region in Jihlava) 1993 Josef Wagner–Drawings, Galerie výtvarného umění v Chebu (State Gallery of Fine Arts in Cheb), 2004-2005 Josef Wagner–Pictures and Graphics from Private Collections, Zámecký Skleník Boskovice (The Glasshouse of Boskovice Chateau) and Galerie města Trutnova (Gallery of the Town of Trutnov) 2005. Film document: Můj Parthenon jsou Holešovice (Holešovice is My Parthenon) (Česká televize 1997, directed by Rudolf Adler).
