Ludwig Dill
Ludwig Dill (born February 2, 1848 in Gernsbach , † October 24, 1940 in Karlsruhe ) was a German painter .
Life and artistic work
Wilhelm Franz Karl Ludwig was the only son of the Grand Ducal Official Assessor, later a magistrate, Ludwig Dill and his wife Rosa Dill, nee. Dietz. One year after his birth, the family moved to Gengenbach , in 1856 to Durlach and finally in 1862 to Stuttgart .
Ludwig Dill studied architecture at the Stuttgart Polytechnic until 1872, later moving to the Munich Academy . From 1874 he was a student of Karl Theodor von Piloty , Carl Raab and Otto Seitz . He wrote about the latter artist:
"Prof. Seitz was a naturalist. In his large picture 'Neptune and the Naiads' one could see the welts on the hips and calves from the petticoats and garters worn by the painted women. I was always fighting with him: He demanded that the highlights on the nose should be rubbed dry so that the 'pores' could be seen! I was totally against that! "
However, he was more influenced by the non-academic Munich landscape painting around Adolf Lier , which he soon joined.
Ludwig Dill had been traveling a lot since 1874 “and discovered one of his favorite landscape motifs near Venice, namely in Chioggia . The impressionistically colored realism of the Venetian landscape gradually gave way in the early 1990s to a kind of ornamental natural stylization that brought Dill close to Art Nouveau ”. The artist, who had also made a name for himself as a marine painter, was a founding member of the Munich Secession , an association of fine artists in Munich , of which he was president from 1894 to 1899.
His friendship with Adolf Hölzel , who ran a painting school in Dachau and which he attended there for the first time in 1892, was important. Dill wrote about how his way to Dachau led him:
"To my lb. To visit my friend Hölzel in Dachau, still unknown to me, I drove out there on a beautiful autumn day. To my great astonishment, I saw delightful watercourses and pools with splendid colors on both sides of the railway. Hölzel now showed me a number of popular motifs, but they couldn't offer me anything special. Then I said to him: 'But now I want to guide you'. He too stood in awe of my delicious discoveries! From then on we pushed further and further into the 'moss', where our enthusiasm had no limits. We are particularly fond of the white moor. Then my decision was made! Dachau and only Dachau !! "
In 1896 Ludwig Dill moved to Dachau , where he bought a small house in what was then Holzgartenstrasse (today: Ludwig-Dill-Strasse). Together with Arthur Langhammer and Adolf Hölzel he founded the painting school "Neu-Dachau", which made him one of the most important representatives of the Dachau artists' colony . His studies in the Dachauer Moos brought the atmospheric, soft moods of the moor to particularly fine expression.
In 1899 Ludwig Dill went to Karlsruhe as a teacher. There he taught from 1899 to 1919 at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe . The artist kept returning to Dachau during the summer months, where he owned his little house:
“When he was in Dachau in the summer, he was the revered focus of younger painters. Every week this group met at Hörhammer's 'Max-Josef-Zimmer', where the master sang Venetian gondola songs, accompanying himself on the lute, adored by his students. The younger colleagues who did not belong to this group called these atmospheric gatherings somewhat enviously 'worship'. "
At the first joint exhibition between the German Association of Artists and the Munich Secession in 1904 in the Royal Exhibition Building on Munich's Königsplatz, Ludwig Dill was represented with two oil paintings.
He was one of the preferred selection of contemporary artists that the “Committee for the Procurement and Evaluation of Stollwerck Pictures” suggested to the Cologne chocolate producer Ludwig Stollwerck to commission them with drafts.
Ludwig Dill was married twice. In 1875 he married Luise Kornbeck († 1905), with whom he was married for 30 years and had three children, two daughters and a son (died in World War I ). Four years after the death of his first wife, the painter married the widow Johanna Malburg (1859–1944).
In 1936 he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Dachau, and in 1938 on the occasion of his 90th birthday he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Gernsbach. In Dachau (since 1933), Gernsbach (since 1935), Karlsruhe (since 1964) and Vierkirchen (By) one street each commemorates the artist.
Portraits and reception
- 1906 Interior and chest of drawers , two works by August von Brandis painted in Ludwig Dill's studio in Dachau.
- 1906 one-sided cast bronze medal, 81 mm. Medalist: Benno Elkan (1877–1960). Image side. LVDWIG DILL - Head Portrait to the Left. Literature: Menzel-Severing p. 193, no.162, fig. 117.
- 1903 to 1905: Portrait of Dill by Hermann Binz at the Stephanienbrunnen (Karlsruhe) .
Works (excerpt)
- Sage fields in the flooded Po Valley
- Winter gardens in Dachau
- Chiogga in the evening
- Dutch dune landscape
- Poplars in the water, tempera / cardboard 91.4 × 71.8
- Blue flowers, tempera / cardboard 75 × 92.5
- Blue spring blossom in the Dachauer Moos, tempera / cardboard 68 × 90
- Spring in the moss with white poplars, oil / canvas. 53 × 65
- The old Dachauer Holzgartenstrasse, tempera / cardboard 15.5 × 23 (note: today Ludwig Dill Str.)
- Dusk over the Amper, tempera / cardboard 72 × 90
- Dachau an der Amper, oil / canvas. 50 × 70
- An autumn morning, tempera / cardboard 49 × 42
- The morning, oil / canvas. 104.5 x 59.5
- Birch trees in the Dachau moss, oil / cardboard 54 × 37
- Last snowdrifts in the moss, tempera / paper / cardboard 66 × 50
- Melting snow on the Amper, tempera / paper / cardboard 51 × 65
- Poplars and willows, tempera paper / canvas 92 × 72
literature
- Bärbel Schäfer: Ludwig Dill, life and work . 1997.
- Hedwig Syndic: Ludwig Dill . Museum Association Dachau e. V, 1998.
- The Munich School 1850–1914 . Bavarian State Painting Collections, Munich 1979.
- Matthias Hamann (Ed.): Ludwig Dill. Life memories . Munich 2010.
- Carl Thiemann : Memories of a Dachau Painter . Dachau o. JS 14-15.
Web links
- ka.stadtwiki.net
- dachau.de
- Literature by and about Ludwig Dill in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by Ludwig Dill in the digital collections of the Stuttgart University Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ cit. n. Hamann, 2010, p. 4.
- ↑ Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen 1979, p. 185.
- ↑ Bayerische Staatsgemädedammlungen 1979, p. 185.
- ↑ cit. n. Hamann 2010, p. 87.
- ↑ Thiemann n.d., p. 15.
- ↑ Thiemann no year, p. 14 f.
- ^ Exhibition catalog X. Exhibition of the Munich Secession: The German Association of Artists (in connection with an exhibition of exquisite products of the arts in the craft) , Verlaganstalt F. Bruckmann, Munich 1904 (p. 20: Dill, Ludwig, Karlsruhe i. Baden. Catalog no. 16 / 17, Feldgeding , Fig. 58: Poplar forest , both oil on canvas)
- ↑ Lorenz, Detlef: Reklamekunst um 1900. Artist lexicon for collecting pictures , Reimer-Verlag, 2000.
- ↑ Cornelia Renger-Zorn, Ludwig Dill - Painter on the Threshold of Modernity, in: Gernsbacher Bote, year 2010, no. 1, p. 13 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dill, Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1848 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gernsbach |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 24, 1940 |
| Place of death | Karlsruhe |