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Landscape with Cattle, Raczynski Gallery, ib.; Shepherd Family with Cattle and Sheep Resting, Similar Subject (1812), Darmstadt Museum; Inn Valley near Niederandorf, Ruin of Falkenstein (1828), View in Tyrol (1826), Königsberg Museum; Herd with Boy (1823), Leipsic Museum; Young Bull, Landscapes with Figures and Animals (5, three dated 1816, 1821, 1827), New Pinakothek, Munich; Sheep and Cattle-Pieces (6, three dated 1810, 1816), View near Munich, Schleissheim Gallery.—Jordan (1885), ii. 236.
WAGNER, ALEXANDER, born in Pesth, April 16, 1838. History and genre painter, pupil in Munich of Piloty. Won fame with his first large picture, Isabella Zápolya's Farewell to Transylvania, belonging to the Hungarian Academy; visited Spain, and is now professor at the Munich Academy. Works: Episode in Siege of Belgrade, Death of Titus Dugovich, Castle Vajda-Hunyád with Matthias Corvinus and Hunting Suite, Pesth Museum; Abduction of Women (1868); Csikos Race at Debreczin; Picadores at Bull-Fight; Spanish Mail at Toledo; Chariot Race (1876), G. Kirchner & Co., New York. In fresco: Entry of Gustavus Adolphus into Aschaffenburg, Marriage of Otto of Bavaria, National Museum, Munich; Banquet of Attila, Tournament of Matthias Corvinus, Redouten Saal, Pesth.—Meyer, Conv. Lex., xix. 1013.
WAGNER, ELISE. See Puyroche.
WAGNER, FERDINAND, born at
Schwabmünchen, Bavaria, in 1819, died in
Augsburg, June 13, 1881. History painter,
pupil of Munich Academy under Cornelius,
Schlotthauer, and Schnorr; returned in
1818 to his native town, painted for different
churches in Bavaria, and in succession
the following works in fresco: Last Judgment,
Church at Schwabmünchen; Homage
of City of Augsburg to Rudolf von Hapsburg,
Augsburg offering Protection to Louis
the Bavarian, Foundation of the Fuggerei,
Anton Fugger interceding for Augsburg,
Emperor Max at Augsburg (1860-63), Fugger
House, Augsburg; others at Constance
(1864), and in the City Hall and Catholic
Church at Breslau (1865-66); Palace at
Monaco (1867); Church at Memmingen;
New City Hall at Munich; Scenes from Life
of Christ, Church at Friedberg, Suabia.—Kunst-Chronik,
xvi. 618; Müller, 543.
WAGNER, FERDINAND, born at Passau,
Jan. 25, 1847. History and genre
painter, pupil of Munich Academy and of
Quaglio; visited Rome, and in 1876 Venice;
an artist of great imagination and exquisite
humour, and an excellent colourist.
Works: Children's Ball, Architect Baré,
Hamburg; Lute Player; Evening Devotion;
Doings of Modern Art. In fresco: Tannhäuser
Scenes (1873); Walls and Ceiling
(1874), Rathskeller, Munich; do., Café Roth,
ib.; Five Senses (1881); Cycle of 17 pictures
representing Influence of Ancient Gods
on Aliments (1882); Hunting Train (1883),
Drachenburg on the Rhine; Two Female
Figures (1883).—Meyer, Conv. Lex., xviii.
993; Kunst-Chronik, xvii. 210, 739; xix.
183, 447; Illustr. Zeitg. (1875), ii. 83; Allgem.
K. C., viii. 547.
WAGNER, JOHANN MARTIN VON,
born at Würzburg, June 24, 1777, died in
Rome, Aug. 8, 1858. History painter, pupil
of Vienna Academy (1797-82) under
Füger; won the first prize, and returned to
Würzburg; went in 1803 to Paris and in
1804 to Rome, whither he returned in 1810
after a sojourn in Munich of two years. In
1812-13 he visited Greece, by order of Crown
Prince Louis of Bavaria, to buy antique works
of art. Professor and secretary-general of
Munich Academy. Commander of Order
of Civil Merit and of St. Michael. Works:
Holy Family, Holy Women returning from
Christ's Tomb (1802); Council of Leaders
before Troy (1808), Schleissheim Gallery;
sketch to this in Darmstadt Museum; Portrait
of Artist's Parents, Bearded Old Man,
Mary on her Journey to Elizabeth, Christ