Johannes Ludwig (architect, 1904)

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Johannes Ludwig (born June 18, 1904 in Düsseldorf ; †  1996 ) was a German architect and university professor . From 1957 to 1973 he was a professor at the Technical University of Munich and for many years director of the visual arts department of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts .

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Johannes Ludwig was born the son of the Austrian architect Alois Ludwig (1872–1969) and his wife, the Prague factory owner's daughter Klara Margarete Wanniek. In his youth he was strongly influenced by the largely intact, archaic unity of the South Tyrolean architectural and cultural landscape, as the Ludwigs moved from Munich to Meran after the First World War and ran a fruit and wine estate there. Due to his early enthusiasm for shipbuilding, he went to the shipyards of Bremer Vulkan and Blohm & Voss as an intern , from 1924 he studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich with Theodor Fischer , spent a guest semester with Clemens Holzmeister at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and completed his studies with the main diploma examination at German Bestelmeyer in Munich. From 1926 to 1927 he worked for the architecture firm Amon & Fingerle in Bolzano , before being appointed by Clemens Holzmeister as an assistant at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1929, where he often represented Holzmeister in his lectures and corrections. From 1931 to 1935 Ludwig worked as a freelance architect in Meran, then in the office of his uncle, the architect Gustav Ludwig in Munich . In the second half of the Second World War he was involved with Josef Wiedemann in the expansion of the city of Linz and in the Linz housing program under Roderich Fick , and from 1937 to 1957 he also worked as a freelance architect in Munich, Trostberg and Mühldorf am Inn .

In 1955, Ludwig was appointed to the chair for urban development and regional planning at the Technical University of Vienna and in 1957 as the successor to Hans Döllgast as a full professor for architectural drawing and spatial art at the Technical University of Munich. From 1969 to 1983 he was also director of the visual arts department at the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. In 1973 he retired .

Ludwig's view of architecture was particularly influenced by his early contact with Gunnar Asplund and the young Scandinavian generation of architects, who welcomed him like their own , even when they visited the great Stockholm Werkbund exhibition in 1930 . Among them were Sven Markelius , Uno Åhrén , Nils Einar Eriksson , Eskil Sundahl and Olof Thunström . In 1934 he married the Swede Elisabeth Lindström from Stockholm. The children Gunilla, Thomas and Christian emerged from the marriage. His first post-war publications with Rudolf Pfister in the Baumeister magazine about Gunnar Asplund and his numerous Scandinavian excursions enthused many students, had a lasting impact on the Munich architecture scene and significantly ensured the Scandinavian architectural influence in southern Germany.

Ludwig had a long-standing friendly relationship with many of his former students. His chair, together with those of his friends, professors Josef Wiedemann and Franz Hart, formed the center of Munich’s post-war modernism, which was heavily crafted and whose influence and importance his successor Friedrich Kurrent once casually described as the Munich triumvirate .

Buildings and designs (selection)

Christ Church in Hanau, interior

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literature

  • Friedrich Kurrent (Ed.): Johannes Ludwig. Buildings, projects, furniture. Exhibition catalog, Technical University of Munich, Munich 1984.
  • Prof. Johannes Ludwig. In: Chair for Urban Development and Regional Planning at the Technical University of Munich (Ed.): Between Transformation and Tradition. Urban planning in the second half of the 20th century. (Festschrift for Gerd Albers on his 60th birthday) Munich 1979, pp. 76–81.
personal data
SURNAME Ludwig, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH 1996
Place of death Munich