Johann Friedrich Wagner was a German painter, draftsman and lithographer.

Johann Friedrich Wagner was born in Stuttgart in 1801. In 1834 he settled in Bern as a landscape painter. After marrying Johanna Ziegler, the daughter of a bourgeois family, he opened a lithographic studio there and published individual sheets and lithographic series. In 1850 he emigrated to North America. His further fate is unknown. The incomplete views of Swiss castles and palaces, which appeared from 1840 in loose deliveries of ten sheets in a blue cardboard box with accompanying texts, are of particular historical interest. By July 1842, 120 views had been published.