Friedrich Ludwig (painter)

German painter

Friedrich Ludwig (1895–1970) was a German expressionist painter. He created art using oil paint, chalk, gouache, and watercolor paints.

Friedrich Ludwig was the ninth oldest child in his family; he had sixteen siblings. His family farmed in Wieslet, in the Black Forest region of Southern Germany. He completed an apprenticeship for painting and decorating in the same town. it is known for educating Cézanne, Gauguin, Émile Bernard, Maurice Denis, Pierre Bonnard, Eduard Vuillard, Maillol, and Achille Laugé. After the surrender of the Third Reich in 1945, the Americans granted Ludwig permission to resume painting; he moved to Berchtesgaden, Bavaria. The museum holds approximately 2,000 of Ludwig's works.

"In his pictures, intangible spirit beings can ascend. Tilting and refractions contain symbol of suggested figures, patterns, faces. Cutting shapes jutting into the picture have something transitory and unfest. His single figures are substantially more compact. Spatial width and sculptural volumes formed the cause for a multiplicity of pictures, which testify for Ludwig in the European art of the time after Cézanne beside the German expressionist the own way of the outsider: a colorist of high degrees, whose discovery is to be retrieved now" (Reinhard Mueller Mehlis). "Ludwig was a spirited and extremely mobile, genuine and inspirable artist," remembers the Zurich art historian Dr. Werner Y. Mueller: "A born painter, only in color dreams lived and like a child at the colored miracle of the things was pleased again and again."