His most famous work is The Chariot Race (now at the Manchester Art Gallery),[5] which he painted for the Vienna Exposition (1873) and then expanded to a larger size for the Columbian Exposition (Chicago Fair) of 1893.[6] The painting depicts the close of a chariot race in the Circus Maximus in Ancient Rome, presided over by Emperor Domitian. Chariot Race was completed in 1882 just two years after the publication of Ben-Hur. The painting depicts the loss of a wheel of a chariot at the height of the race. In the original book the wheel is "crushed", in the painting it is shown intact spinning off to the left.
In the painting After the Hunt (1864) Wagner portrayed his wife Bertha von Oldenburg in the circle of an elegant company of hunters, dressed in the historical costumes from the period of Mathias Corvinus. Another famous work was a round panorama of old Rome, titled Das alte Rom mit dem Triumphzuge Kaiser Constantin’s im Jahre 312 n.Chr., which he painted in cooperation with Josef Bühlmann in Munich in 1888. The painting was destroyed, and repainted by Yadegar Asisi in the Leipzig Panometer.[7]
Titusz Dugovics opfert sich in der Schlacht um Belgrad (Titusz Dugovics Sacrifices himself in the Battle of Belgrade), 1859, today in the Hungarian National Gallery (Budapest)
Königin Izabella's Abschied aus Transsylvanien (Queen Izabella's farewell from Transylvania)
Pferdetrieb auf der Hortobagyer Puszta in Ungarn, around 1880
Das Wagenrennen, 1882, today in the Manchester Art Gallery
Wagenrennen im Circus Maximus in Rom zur Zeit des Domitian
Ungarisches Fuhrwerk
decoration of the "Saal der Republiken" (hall of the republics), Hamburg Rathaus, 1899 "The Chariot Race" (Manchester Art Gallery, England)
References and notes
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↑In German personal names, von is a preposition which approximately means 'of' or 'from' and usually denotes some sort of nobility. While von (always lower case) is part of the family name or territorial designation, not a first or middle name, if the noble is referred to by their last name, use Schiller, Clausewitz or Goethe, not von Schiller, etc.
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