Ludwig von Herterich

Ludwig von Herterich ( born October 13, 1856 in Ansbach, † December 25, 1932 in Etzenhausen today to Dachau), until 1908 Ludwig Herterich, was a German painter and art educator. He became known for his portraits and monumental painter importance and was a leading representative of the Munich school.

Life

Ludwig Herterich was the son of the sculptor and restorer Franz Herterich and younger brother of Johann Caspar Herterich. In 1872 he moved to Munich and took lessons with his brother. From 1873 he studied in the sculpture class at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Later, he was a teacher at the art school in Stuttgart and then from 1898 a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.

Among his pupils were, among others, Richard Flower, Karl Caspar, Maria Caspar- Filser, Leo Delitz, Adolf Erbsloh, Fanny Noble of Geiger- Weishaupt, Käthe Kollwitz, Hermann mills, Gisbert Palmié, Walter Püttner, Julius Seyler and Maria Slavona.

In 1908 he was honored for his contribution to the Maximilian Order and raised in the personal nobility in connection therewith.

Herterich was involved among other things, instrumental in the artistic decoration of the castle Wolfsbrunn in the Erzgebirge.