Ludwig Bock (painter)

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Ludwig Bock (born October 17, 1886 in Munich ; † August 14, 1971 there ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Ludwig Bock was born as the son of Dr. Heinrich Bock (1860–1927) and his wife Anna, née Reitmayer, were born on Brienner Strasse in Munich . One of the father's patients was the artist Franz von Defregger , who recognized the son's talent. Defregger advised his father to give the boy artistic support at an early stage and he also encouraged him himself.

After compulsory elementary school, Bock attended the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich from 1896 , which he left in June 1902 from the 5th grade. He began his first professional artistic training at the private academy with Heinrich Knirr , and later in the Haimhausen artists' colony with Bernhard Buttersack . In 1906 he was accepted at the Munich Art Academy . As a master student of the animal painter Heinrich von Zügel , he also took part in his study visits to Wörth am Rhein. In 1908 he first took part in the exhibition at the Munich Secession . In the same year he received the bronze and in 1909 the silver medal of the Munich Art Academy . In 1910 he showed his work in the Thannhauser Gallery in Munich.

In 1913 he went on a study trip to Paris to study French modernism and painters such as Henri Matisse and Paul Cézanne who influenced his work. In 1917 he became a member of the Munich Secession . Since 1918, regular exhibition participations in the Glaspalast in Munich and in numerous other German cities followed. In 1920 a painting by Bock - " After the Rain " - was purchased for the first time by the Bavarian State Painting Collections. Numerous other purchases followed. In 1927 the academy awarded him the title of professor; In 1929 he was honored with the Rome Prize for the Villa Massimo and the associated scholarship.

After the end of the war, Bock took part in the re-establishment of the Munich Secession, which was dissolved in the war years, and regularly took part in exhibitions himself. In 1952 he received the promotional award for fine arts of the state capital Munich . In 1971 Ludwig Bock died in Munich at the age of 84. Bock was married twice, first with the painter Hansl Bock , and after the divorce (around 1930) with Irene Bock.

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Bock specialized, influenced by his teachers, initially in landscape and nature topics. After his trips to Europe, he later dealt with nudes and still lifes. In the following years he clearly broke away from the relaxed, impressionistically influenced naturalistic style and switched to a strongly expressive and contrasting color scheme, with which he followed the guidelines of Expressionism. From 1927 Bock changed his style again and became calmer in his artistic expression. From then on he created almost exclusively still lifes, which in his late work were based on the style of the painter Carl Schuch . Bock's works were purchased by the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen and also by the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich; however, they were and are also offered for sale in the art trade and at auctions. He was a member of the Reich Association of Visual Artists (RvbK) and also worked as a draftsman and illustrator, including for an edition of Tyll Ulenspiegel by Charles de Coster published in Munich in 1920 .

literature

  • Dressler's art manual . 1921, 1930
  • Youth (magazine) . 1922, vol. 27, issue 18, p. 695, fig .: nude outdoors ; 1928, vol. 33, issue 42, p. 664, fig. Fire lilies ; 1929, vol. 34, issue 19, p. 300, ill .: spring landscape
  • GJ Wolf: To the pictures by Ludwig Bock. In: Art for All . Volume 61, Bruckmann-Verlag, Munich 1929/30, p. 164ff.
  • Peter Breuer (ed.): Munich artists' heads. 1st edition. Georg DW Callwey Verlag, Munich 1937. (see: Article on "Ludwig Bock" )
  • Bruno Kroll: German contemporary painters. The development of German painting since 1900 . Rembrandt-Verlag, Munich 1934, pp. 40–41 (ill.)
  • Young art in the German Empire. Organized by the Reichsstatthalter in Vienna Reichsleiter Baldur von Schirach. Vienna 1943. Catalog for the exhibition February - March 1943 (ill.)
  • Jürgen Schultze (edit.): Encyclopedia of World Art (18 vols.), Volume 13: Nineteenth century . Heyne-Verlag, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-453-44049-8 .
  • Article by Horst Ludwig: Ludwig Bock u. Adolf Bürger. In: Journal: Weltkunst, Ed. 13/1992. Zeit-Verlag, Munich 1992, pp. 1801–1803.
  • Bruckmann's Lexicon of Munich Art. (Collaboration: Horst Ludwig et al.): Munich painter in the 19th and 20th centuries. Century. 6 volumes); here: Volume 5 Achmann-Kursell (born 1871–1900) . Stiebner Verlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-8307-0115-2 , pp. 95–97: "Bock, Ludwig (August Otto)"
  • Hans Vollmer (Ed., Ed.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century (6 vols.) ; here: first volume, - A to D - . Original edition, 1st edition. VEB EA Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1953.
  • Hans Vollmer (Ed., Ed.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century (6 vols.) ; here: Volume 1, A-D . Unchangeable Reprint d. Orig. Leipzig, 1953 (under license from Seemann-Verlag, Leipzig); published in: Dt. Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-423-05907-9 . (P. 242).
  • General artist lexicon (AKL). Volume 12, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-598-22752-3 .
  • Siegfried Weiß (art historian) : Art career aspiration. Painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Former students of the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich from 1849 to 1918 . Allitera Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86906-475-8 , pp. 489-493. (Fig.)

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References and comments

  1. ^ Registration documents (PMB: Dr. H. Bock): Munich, City Archives.
  2. ↑ Matriculation, certificate records and annual reports 1898/99 to 1901/02, Maximiliansgymnasium Munich, archive.
  3. ↑ d. i. Johanna Susanne Maria, b. Vogel (Munich 1893–1973 Freising); Daughter of the painter Johanna Merré.
  4. ↑ 1905-1966; further unknown.
personal data
SURNAME Bock, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1971
Place of death Munich