A Life Shaped by Landscape and Light Born in Torgau, Germany, Otto Wagner grew up in a world where the boundaries between nature and architecture were often blurred. His father was a waterworks commissioner, a role that perhaps influenced the way Otto would later observe the flow of rivers and the structure of stone. After moving to Dresden, he sought formal training at the art academy, studying under Johann Gottfried Jentzsch. This period of education laid the foundation for a career spent capturing the quiet dignity of the physical world, from the sweeping views of the German countryside to…