Siegfried Wagner Bronze figurine of laughing woman from Rathje bronze foundry

Siegfried Wagner was a Danish sculptor. He was born in Hamburg to Danish parents and married the sculptor Olga Wagner. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts from 1889 to 1896, was an assistant to J.F. Willumsen and co-leader of Mogens Ballin's Tinsmithy from 1900 to 1902. Siegfried Wagner carried out numerous industrial art works and had an impact on the development of the cabinetmaking style. His best-known sculpture is Lurblæserne (bronze, 1911-1914; the column in brick by Anton Rosen) at Rådhuspladsen in Copenhagen, which was erected to commemorate the 100th anniversary of brewer J.C. Jacobsen's birth in 1811. Jacobsen's birth in 1811. Siegfried Wagner often collaborated with his wife and, like her, exhibited at Den Frie Udstilling from 1905.