Ludwig Kasper

Ludwig Kasper ( born 2 May 1893 in belts; † August 28, 1945 in Braunau ) was an Austrian sculptor.

Life

The farmer's son Ludwig Kasper received his artistic training as a sculptor, inter alia, in Hallstatt, Hermann Hahn in Munich and the award of grants in Greece and Rome. He also worked in the Silesian Berna, in Paris and Berlin, where his main creative period took place.

Together with the sculptor and the painter Fritz Wrampe Florian Bosch he kept from 1923 to 1928 a studio in the former Schwanthalerstraße Museum in Munich. In 1930 he married the artist Ottilie Wolf (after Ottilie Kasper ). Between 1943 and 1944 he taught sculpture at the Art School in Brunswick, but returned to bombing in his native Austria. Ludwig Kasper died in 1945 from a kidney ailment.

His works have been exhibited, inter alia, on the first documenta ( 1955) in Kassel. The Standing woman in 1951 was on display at the First Federal Garden Show in Hanover.

Works (selection)

  • Spearman (gypsum)
  • Arethusa (gypsum)
  • Kneeling (marble cement)
  • Seated (marble cement)
  • Child with apple (marble cement)
  • Boy (marble cement)
  • Standing girl (marble cement)
  • Large Stirnbandbinderin (marble cement)
  • Small Stirnbandbinderin (marble cement)
  • Squatting (marble cement)
  • Portrait of a woman, larger than life (marble cement)
  • Head of a Woman ( terracotta )
  • Concetta (marble cement)
  • Standing woman (marble cement)

Exhibitions

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