Josef Wagner the Younger (March 2, 1901 - February 10, 1957) was a Czech painter and sculptor.

A pupil of Jan Štursa

Jan Štursa

Jan Štursa was a Czech sculptor, one of founders of modern Czech sculpture.- Birth and studies :...

 and Josef Mařatka, he studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts

Academy of Fine Arts in Prague

The Academy of Fine Arts, Prague was founded in 1799 and is the Czech Republic's oldest art college. The school offers twelve Master's degree programs and one Doctoral program.-History:...

 from 1922 to 1926. He was later a professor at the Art School in Prague. Here he met his future wife, Marie Kulhánková, a sculptor, with whom he had two sons, who later became artists themselves.

Warm stone colors best suited his own personal style, inspired by archaic Greece and the Czech Baroque style.

There is a statue in his memory in Prague.

Selected works

• Ležící torzo, 1935
• Poezie, 1936
• Oblaka a Země, 1938
• Útisk, 1944
• Utrpení, 1947
• Pomník povstání ve Světlé Hůrce ve Slezsku, 1928-29
• Pomník Jaroslava Vrchlického na Petříně v Praze, 1936-56
• Pomník Bedřicha Smetany v Karlových Varech, 1936-49
• Pomník padlým ve Dvoře Králové, 1948-54.

Literature

• J. Pečírka, Sochař Josef Wagner. Prague 1959
• J. M. Tomeš, Sochař Josef Wagner. Prague 1985