Friedrich Ludwig (painter)
Friedrich Ludwig ( born October 25, 1895 in Wieslet ( Southern Black Forest ), † 22 January, 1970 Gabersee at Wasserburg am Inn ) was a German Expressionist painter.
Life
Friedrich Ludwig is born as the ninth of seventeen children in a peasant family. After attending elementary school and a painter's apprenticeship he worked from 1913 to 1917 as a decorator in Zurich. Although socialist -oriented pacifist, he reluctantly reports in 1917 for German military service.
1920 joins Louis Badenweiler Circle, a group of like-minded people like Annette Kolb, René Schickele, Thomas Mann, Emil Bizer, Julius Meier -Graefe, among others.
In 1922 he traveled to Italy and comes into contact with the works of Piero della Francesca ( 1416-1492 ), which impress him long term. Inspired by his first trip, he visited Italy in 1924 for a second time. However, no works have been discovered from this period until today.
From 1922 to 1926 Ludwig completed training at the Städel School in Frankfurt am Main.
In 1926 he received at the Academie Julian in Paris, which is famous not only for their education, but also for artists such as Cézanne, Gauguin, Emile Bernard, Maurice Denis (one of the founders of the artists group Les Nabis ), Pierre Bonnard,, Maillol and Achille Laugé discovered and encouraged to have Edouard Vuillard. The time from 1928 to 1930, surrounded and influenced by the artists in Paris, is considered the most creative period of Louis.
1931 Ludwig seeks his inner peace in Bad Reichenhall. This period is characterized by nature and landscape images. In 1934, his first official exhibition in Munich by Nazi Gauleiter Adolf Wagner as " un-German " and declared prohibited ". , If the stuff until tomorrow is not from the walls, I'll depend on it and douse with gasoline "
1935 offered the gallery Neupert in Zurich Ludwig at an exhibition of his work. He has an offer back to stay after this successful exhibition in Switzerland and travels in the aftermath Bellinzona on the Adriatic Sea to Paris and Wieslet back to Bad Reichenhall, where he alights 1940. Here he paints his series The Blue Mountains. After the surrender of Germany in 1945 he gets from the Americans permission to paint without restrictions again and moves to Berchtesgaden.
On December 27, 1954 married Ludwig Christel Sprengel, 1955 was born their son Michael. 1956, will Ludwig together with the group Der Blaue Reiter two of his works in Munich. It is followed by several comprehensive and successful exhibitions at the Munich Gallery Karin Hielscher, as well as several meeting with the art critic and historian Reinhard Müller- Mehlis. 1959 leaves him his wife and moved with his son Michael to Piding.
In 1965 he exhibited in the Regensburg gallery. First suspicions about his poor mental state expressed by his wife in a letter to the Swiss art historian Werner Müller. Ludwig seems at times to be confused and absent-minded. On 31 July 1968 he was admitted to the mental hospital Gabersee near Wasserburg am Inn. 1969 dies his son Michael at the age of 13 years from suicide. On January 22, 1970 Friedrich Ludwig died in hospital of Gabersee. He is buried in Piding next to his son.
Work
In his paintings intangible spirit beings can ascend. Canting and refractions contain symbolically indicated figures, schemes, faces. Attached, outstanding figures in the picture have something transitory, Unfestes. Much more compact are its single figures. Spatial width and plastic volumes made for Louis the occasion for a variety of images that bear witness to their own way of loner in the European art of the time by Cezanne in addition to the German expressionists: a colourist of high caliber, whose discovery is now catch up ( Reinhard Müller -Mehlis ).
" Louis was a witty and extremely moving, genuine and enthusiastic artists ," recalls the Zurich art historian Werner Y. Müller. " A born painter who lived only in colors and dreams as a child was looking at the colored wonder of things over and over again. "
He is counted among the " expressionists of the second generation " (also " lost" or "forgotten " generation). At the age Louis pretended to have burnt his pictures; in the art world, he was therefore almost forgotten. Sigurd Mary in 1984 about 2000 Ludwig images rediscovered. They are made available to the public since 1999 in Louis hometown Wieslet at the Friedrich- Ludwig- Museum.