Ludwig Bang

Ludwig Friederich Carl Bang (born January 24, 1857 in Doberan ; † March 9, 1944 there ) was a German history and genre painter .

Life

Gravestone of Ludwig Bang in the New Cemetery in Bad Doberan

Ludwig Bang was the son of a forest gardener. He attended the Katharineum in Lübeck and then studied painting from 1875 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , where he attended the class of antiquities.

He switched to history painting and created murals in Munich, Nuremberg and Lucerne . Bang emigrated to the United States in the late 19th century. In Toledo (Ohio) he worked as a painter from the mid-1890s at least until 1906, where he painted portraits, landscapes and genre scenes and exhibited them with the Toledo Artists Association . He also worked there as a book illustrator. One of his sketchbooks is preserved in the Toledo Lucas County Public Library .

In 1914, shortly before the outbreak of World War I , he returned to Doberan, where he created landscapes and pictures based on motifs from the Mecklenburg world of legends, which also ended up in the collections of the State Museum in Schwerin .

Works

Heinrich Borwin's oath

Heinrich Borwin's oath , also: The legend of Doberan , 2 × 6 m, Neues Rathaus (Bad Doberan) (1915)
The legend of the founding of the Holy Dam

literature

Margarethe Henning-Hennings: The painter Ludwig Bang. In: Mecklenburgische Monatshefte 1929, p. 384 ( digitized version )
Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 454 .
Jeffrey Weidman: Artists in Ohio, 1787–1900: A Biographical Dictionary , Kent State University Press, 2000, p. 44 (digitized)

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Bang - collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature about Ludwig Bang in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

↑ www.friedhof-doberan.de accessed on February 8, 2018 (other sources give the year 1930 without specifying the date of death.)
↑ In Lübeck he lived in 1871 with his uncle Heinrich Bang, the preacher at St. Annen, on Johannisstrasse (according to his entry in the 1871 census list, accessed via ancestry.com on December 1, 2014). He probably left the Katharineum again before graduating from high school, because in Hermann Genzken: The high school graduates of the Katharineum in Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907): Digitalisat , Universitäts- und It is not listed in the Düsseldorf State Library .

^ Matriculation of the academy (accessed on 30/11/14)

↑ So z. B. for Emery D. Potter : Ode to my pipe.

↑ German Photo Library

personal data
SURNAME	Bang, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bang, Ludwig Friederich Carl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German history and genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH	January 24, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH	Doberan
DATE OF DEATH	March 9, 1944
Place of death	Doberan

[1] www.friedhof-doberan.de accessed on February 8, 2018 (other sources give the year 1930 without specifying the date of death.)

[2] In Lübeck he lived in 1871 with his uncle Heinrich Bang, the preacher at St. Annen, on Johannisstrasse (according to his entry in the 1871 census list, accessed via ancestry.com on December 1, 2014). He probably left the Katharineum again before graduating from high school, because in Hermann Genzken: The high school graduates of the Katharineum in Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907): Digitalisat , Universitäts- und It is not listed in the Düsseldorf State Library .

[3] Matriculation of the academy (accessed on 30/11/14)

[4] So z. B. for Emery D. Potter : Ode to my pipe.

[5] German Photo Library

[6] German Photo Library