ALEXANDER VON WAGNER

Hungarian, 1838-1919

BIOGRAPHY
Alexander von Wagner (also known as Sándor von Wagner) was born in Pest in 1838, before Pest, Buda and Óbuda united to form Budapest in 1873. After graduating from the Real Gymnasium in Pest, Wagner entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where his teachers were Karl von Blaas and Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger. He moved on to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he studied with the German painter Karl von Piloty. From 1869 to 1910, Wagner was professor of history painting at the Munich Academy.

Wagner’s most famous painting, the monumental Chariot Race (1882), was exhibited at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 and is now in the collection of the Manchester Art Gallery, England. The subject was taken from the 1880 novel Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ by General Lew Wallace, a bestseller and one of the most influential Christian books of the 19th century.

Museum Collections:
Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Museum Bautzen, Bautzen
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Kunsthalle, Vienna
Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester
Staatliche Grafische Sammlung, Munich
Staatliches Museum, Fresko
Baron Alexander von Stieglitz Mansion, St. Petersburg
Vajdahunyad Castle, Budapest

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