Karl Ludwig Prince

The Vallunga in Val Gardena in an oil painting by KL Prinz

The Paratoni farm in Val Gardena in a pencil sketch by KL Prinz

Karl Ludwig Prinz (born October 25, 1875 in Vienna ; † December 28, 1944 there ) was an Austrian painter and set designer . He is known for spacious landscapes from the Vienna Woods , the Alpine foothills and the Alps ( South Tyrolean Dolomites ).

Life

Prince was self-taught . He lived in Germany from 1894 to 1898 . From 1908 he was a member of the Vienna Fine Arts Cooperative . From 1912 he created sets for the court opera in Vienna and for theaters in Munich , Hamburg and New York . During the First World War he was accepted as a war painter in the Austro-Hungarian war press headquarters .

Emperor Franz Joseph I and Emperor Karl I had works by Karl Ludwig Prinz in their collection.

Prince was a member of the Dürerbund .

Prinzgasse in the 22nd district of Vienna, Donaustadt, was named after Prinz in 1957 .

Works by Karl Ludwig Prinz can be found in the following collections:

Postcards were made after many of his landscapes.

H. Schöny: Prince, Karl Ludwig. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 284.

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personal data
SURNAME	Prince, Karl Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian painter and set designer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 25, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	December 28, 1944
Place of death	Vienna