"Die Natur muss durch das Herz hindurch, um zur Kunst zu werden": zum 50. Todestag des Marinemalers Cornelius Wagner (1870-1956)

Abstract: Cornelius Wagner, one of twentieth-century Germany’s most important marine painters, died fifty years ago. Unfortunately, his life and work have been neglected by research to the very present. In 1986/87, on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the painter’s death, the German Maritime Museum devoted itself to his oeuvre by presenting an exhibition of the estate. The project did not succeed in eliminating the inadequate state of the research. The museum was able, however, to acquire so many pictures that it can meanwhile call the largest publicly owned collection of the painter’s works its own. The monographic study of marine painting in Germany has been a focus of the museum’s research programme for many years. Within that framework, the first attempt has now been made to carry out an investigation of this artist and his oeuvre on the basis of the museum’s own holdings. Wagner was from an artistic family which settled in Düsseldorf in 1873, and it was at the art academy of

Object Details

• Alternative title: "Nature must go through the heart in order to become art." In Commemoration of the Maritime Painter Cornelius Wagner (1870-1956) on the Fiftieth Anniversary of his Death
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Deutsch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv ; 28 (2005) ; 343-374

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Malerei
• Keyword: Wagner, Cornelius ; Wagner, Carl ; Ausstellung ; Düsseldorf ; Bremerhaven

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (when): 2005
• Creator: Scholl, Lars U.

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-55795-4
• Rights: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 15.08.2025, 7:35 AM CEST