Born in Passau in 1847, died in Munich in 1927. The son of the painter and fresco painter Ferdinand Wagner the Elder, he studied with his father, at the Academy in Munich, with Simon and Angelo Quaglia and Christian Jank. In 1867–68 he was in Italy, then in Munich. His speciality was decorative painting and the painting of ceilings and walls in town halls, taverns, coffee houses, the facades of palaces and other houses. Lloyd’s steamboats were decorated with his paintings.
Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vol. XXXV, Leipzig 1942, p. 32; Gottfried Schäffer, Räume und Exponate des Oberhaus-Museums, Das Oberhausmuseum Passau: Führer durch die Sammlungen, Passau 1984, p. 33.