page_title: Alexander von Wagner
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Alexander von Wagner / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: Alexander (Sandor) von Wagner, After the Hunt ( Mathias Corvinus ), oil on canvas, 119 x 139 cm
context_page_description: Alexander originally Sándor von Wagner was a Hungarian painter.
context_section_description: His most famous work is Chariot Race (now at the Manchester Art Gallery), which he painted for the Vienna Exposition (1873) and then expanded to a larger size for the Columbian Exposition (Chicago Fair) of 1893. 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.
  Further works (selection)
  After the Hunt (Mathias Corvinus) 
  Titusz Dugovics opfert sich in der Schlacht um Belgrad (Titusz Dugovics Sacrifices himself in the Battle of Belgrade), 1859
  Königin Izabella's Abschied aus Transsylvanien (Queen Izabella's farewell from Transylvania)
  Markttag
  Mátyás besiegt Holubár (Mátyás defeats Holubár, fresco), Hungarian State Opera House, 1865
  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 "Chariot Race"(Manchester Art Gallery, England)
caption: After the Hunt (Mathias Corvinus)
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