Born in
Lyngby on 24 May 1873, Olga Rosalie Aloisa Packness was the daughter of the merchant Carl Henrik Laurits Liisberg Packness (1843–1882) and Marie Amalie Martin (1849–1909). She studied painting under
Viggo Johansen in the women's section of the Royal Danish Academy, graduating in 1898. The following year, she married her fellow student, the sculptor Siegfried Wagner (1874–1952). This brought her into a lifelong artistic association focused on sculpture. Given her natural talent, she rapidly advanced in the art under her husband's guidance. As a result of Siegfried's employment at Bing & Grøndahl under
Jens Ferdinand Willumsen, they were both influenced by his distinctive style. A bronze cast of her sculpture
Tankefuld kvinde was erected inside the main entrance to
Sorgenfri Cemetery in 1945. Also notable is her plaster model from 1936 for a bronze statue representing the zoologist
Peter Wilhelm Lund. Owing to lack of funding the statue was never completed but the model is now on display at Copenhagen's
Zoological Museum. In 2006,
Vejen Art Museum exhibited works by Olga and Siegfried Wagner, including sculptures, furniture, ceramics, silver and artefacts in wood. Olga Wagner died in Lyngby on 24 May 1963. She is buried in Sorgenfri Cemetery. ==References==