Carl Wagner (19 October 1796 in Roßdorf (Thüringen) - 10 February 1867 in Meiningen) was a German painter and representatives of the Romantic landscape painting.
1804 the family moved to Meiningen, the royal capital of Saxe-Meiningen.
Wagner graduated from 1817 to 1820 to study painting at the Dresden Art Academy.
Again and again he will later travel to Vienna, and Switzerland, to capture alpine landscape impressions.
Wagner was one of the most important German painters of the Romantic landscape.