Karl Lüdecke

This article deals with the artist, for the chemist see Karl Lüdecke (chemist)

Karl Lüdecke (born February 10, 1896 in Erfurt , † November 26, 1977 in Augsburg ) was a German draftsman and sculptor .

Life

Born and raised as the son of the wood sculptor Fritz Lüdecke, he spent his childhood and school days in Erfurt. There he studied at the state municipal art and trade school. From 1918 to 1922 he studied at the Dresden Art Academy and was a student of Robert Diez , Karl Albiker and Selmar Werner . As early as 1920 he was involved in an art exhibition in Dresden . In 1926 he made two colossal sculptures at the Villa Rosenhof in Dresden for the garden exhibition in Dresden . Lüdecke participated in the artist group Die Schaffenden and he was a member of the artist group Action , which is counted as part of the Dresden secession movements. In exhibitions, such as in 1933, he was involved with the German Association of Artists and the Dresden Artists' Association. In 1935 he presented his sculpture Junge Mädchen at the art exhibition in Dresden. By the National Socialists his works were classified as degenerate and ostracized and excluded. After the bombing raids on Dresden , he moved to Augsburg, but returned to Dresden in 1956. At first he was refused orders, but thanks to the intercession of the sculptor Eugen Hoffmann , he was able to continue his work on the artistic design of Dresden city center. But the political disputes remained. On June 6, 1961, he left the city and returned to Augsburg. He made portraits, architectural sculptures, small sculptures, reliefs and also large statues, such as man and wave, from different materials.

Works (selection

Man and wave

• 1930: Bronze sculpture of a young girl , half-length Dresden - annual exhibition of the Saxon Art Association , Dresden 1931
• 1956: Oriel relief Vogelwiese on Altmarkt , Dresden
• 1959–60: Sandstone sculpture man and wave - taming and using water , TU Dresden , Zellescher Weg , campus entrance Trefftz and Willers building
• Wooden sculpture, carved: girls , half-length figures, private collections and art dealers
• Plastic Romanian farmer , bronze, Dresden City Museum Lost-Art-ID: 421902

literature

• Daniel Jacob: Sculpture Guide Dresden: From Aphrodite to Twin Fountains. ISBN 3-942098-05-9 , p. 248.
• Uwe Fleckner: Attack on the avant-garde art and art politics in National Socialism. Oldenbourg Akademieverlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-05-004062-2 , p. 159 ff.
• Simone Simpson: Between cultural mandate and artistic autonomy. Dresden sculpture of the 1950s and 1960s. Böhlau, Weimar 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20101-2 , p. 155 ff.
• Hannelore Offner, Klaus Schroeder: Restricted - excluded. Fine arts and party rule in the GDR 1961–1989. Akademie Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-05-003348-7 , pp. 632f.
• Lüdecke, Karl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 447 .

Web links

• Exhibition Degenerate Art Berlin 1938
• Lost works of art: "Degenerate Art"
• 1950s / 1960s - the beautiful detail

Individual evidence

1. ↑ deutschefotothek.de
2. ↑ deutschefotothek.de