Ludwig Wilding

Ludwig Wilding ( born May 19, 1927 in Green City, † January 4, 2010 in Buchholz in der Heide Nord ) was a German painter and object artist. His works are assigned to the styles of kinetic art and Op art.

Life and work

Wilding studied in Mainz and Stuttgart, art history and philosophy and worked as a designer in the textile industry. In the 1960s he was a member of the art movement New Tendencies. From 1969 to 1992 Wilding was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg. Ludwig founded in 2007 and Ingeborg Wilding along with the city of Ingolstadt, the Foundation for Concrete Art and Design.

Ludwig Wilding's starting point was the line. By superposition of two-dimensional line structures ( moiré ), the artist explored from irritation of the visual perception and generated apparent motion, virtuality, stereo copies, paradoxical body and anamorphosis. With his works Wilding constructed situations that go beyond the usual experience of art and the viewer the opportunity to experience a personal experience consciously. Therefore Wilding's art drives the resolution of role differences between artist and viewer in favor of an activating participation of the spectator forward. In addition, his pictures do not require prior knowledge of cultural codes and turn off the sensual experience level in the foreground. Art is for " art for all " as it formulated the artist groups " Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel " ( GRAV ) and the loose association " Nouvelles Tendances " in the 1960s. At the same time Wilding began to deal with the moiré who felt also connected with the demands of the viewer -dependent movements. It is Wilding's goal in a change and activation of perception that is conditioned and shaped by everyday life and work processes. Just the moiré effect to the viewer not only irritating, but draw attention to the constructiveness of perception and vision. The visual illusion ideally leads to the process of reflective thinking.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Ludwig Wilding. Retrospective 1949-1987, Published by the Palatinate Gallery Kaiserslautern.
  • Visual phenomena, July 2007, Ines Bauer, Tobias Hoffmann, Wienand Verlag, Museum of Concrete Art, Foundation for Concrete Art and Design Ingolstadt - ISBN 3- 87909-926 X -
  • Artist of the Foundation for Concrete Art and design ingolstadt 01, 2012 Tobias Hoffmann, Wienand Verlag - ISBN 978-3-86832-133-3
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