Ludwig Thiersch

Ludwig Thiersch ( born April 12, 1825 in Munich, † May 10, 1909 ) was a German painter.

Ludwig Thiersch visited after leaving grammar school in 1841 at the ( present ) Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich the local academy, to devote himself under Schwanthalerstraße of sculpture, but went after a number of years to painting, in which he and particularly pupil of Heinrich Maria von Hess, Julius Schnorr von Carol Field was of Karl Schorn. After a Sakuntala (1848 ) and a Kamisardenszene painted, he went to Rome and painted scenes from the life of the Italian people, as well as a Job among his friends.

In 1852 he traveled with his father, Friedrich Thiersch to Athens, adorned the local Byzantine church of St. Nicodemus with frescoes and was appointed in 1856 to Vienna, where he also executed frescoes in the Church of the Holy Trinity Greek.