Max Joseph Wagenbauer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German painter
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Place of Birth: Öxing, Bavaria, Germany
About Max Joseph Wagenbauer
- Maximilian Joseph Wagenbauer (1775 Grafing - 1829 Munich), was a Bavarian artist. After finishing school, Wagenbauer attended drawing classes in Munich, under Johann Jakob Dorner the Elder (1741-1813).
- At the turn of the 19th century he was producing mostly Neo-Classical watercolour landscapes.
- He served in the military from 1797 to 1801, receiving a royal artist's annuity after his service through the influence of Johann Christian von Mannlich (1741-1822), architect and general building director of the dukes of Zweibrücken.
- A condition of the royal stipend was that he produce paintings.
- He was appointed artist to the court and cabinet in 1802 and Inspector of the Royal Paintings Gallery in 1815.
- Wagenbauer focused increasingly on oil painting after 1810 and enjoyed the patronage of Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria, who in 1811 commissioned him, Cantius Dillis (1779-1856) and Johann Jakob Dorner the Younger (1775-1852) to decorate the banquet hall at Schloss Nymphenburg with large paintings of Bavarian lakes. In 1814 Wagenbauer toured Upper Bavaria.
- At that time he was a member of the art academies of Hanau, Berlin and Munich.
- Max Wagenbauer discovered numerous areas in Bavaria.
- Wagenbauer's works departed from the classic tradition.
- He developed his own methodology where he combined careful observation with detailed study of nature, which became the cornerstones of his depictions of landscape.
- His paintings extolled the beauty of the Bavarian landscape, and inspired by Adriaen van de Velde and Paulus Potter, he produced a large number of animal studies.
- Wagenbauer also focused significantly on painting animals, a genre in which the influences of such artists as Adriaen van de Velde and Paulus Potter were evident.
- The genius of Wagenbauer was in the fact that even when inspired by other artists his own style was never overshadowed by theirs, thus resulting in a unique work.
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