Ludwig Bolgiano

Ludwig Bolgiano (born March 20, 1866 in Munich , † October 29, 1948 in Grabenstätt ) was a German painter and draftsman.

Life

Ludwig Bolgiano came from a family who came to Munich from Italy via the Bavarian Rhine Palatinate. The grandfather, Franz Bolgiano (1778–1857) was a collegiate secretary, art collector and dealer; his eldest son Carl Theodor Bolgiano (1816–1897) taught as a full professor for Bavarian, German and French civil law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. The mother, Babette, née Müller (1831–1912), came from Amorbach . As a painter, Ludwig frequently visited the Bavarian city in the Odenwald and captured motifs from Amorbach and its surroundings in many drawings and paintings. From 1876 he attended the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich until his Abitur in 1885, with Fritz von Hellingrath , Ludwig Döderlein , Oskar Piloty , Wilhelm Merck and Ivo Striedinger , among others . He first enrolled at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich to study law, from 1890 took painting lessons in Friedrich Fehr's private school and from October 1890 studied for two years at the art academy in Gabriel Hackl's "nature class" . Study trips took him through Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy. Unmarried all his life, he lived - together with his sister Marie (1862–1916) - in Munich, in the still-preserved house at Von-der-Tann-Straße 3, and worked in a studio on Heßstraße. During the Second World War he moved to Grabenstätt am Chiemsee , where he died in 1948. He was buried in the older part of the Munich forest cemetery at the side of his sister.

Bolgiano was mainly active as a landscape painter and draftsman and found his motifs mainly in the area around Munich, in the Isar valley and in the Chiemgau, but also in and near Amorbach and Rothenburg ob der Tauber, in the Main and Altmühltal, in Tyrol and in South-Tirol. From 1896 he participated in the exhibitions of the Münchner Kunstverein as well as in the annual exhibitions in the royal glass palace, in the Maximilianeum, in the Neue Pinakothek, in the House of German Art and in the collective exhibitions of the Munich artists' cooperative.

In 1909 he received the gold medal at the International Art Exhibition in Munich, in which he was represented with three paintings and several drawings, and in 1911 the Prince Regent Luitpold Medal in silver. In 1915 he was awarded the title of professor. Acquisitions were made, among other things, by the Bavarian state and the municipal art collections, by King Ludwig III. , the Prince of Hohenzollern and the Reich Treasury Minister Franz Xaver Schwarz .

From 1912 to 1919 he was a secretary on the board of the artists 'cooperative (MKG), and later also of the New Munich Artists' Cooperative (NMKG). He was also a member of the "Association for Christian Art" in Munich, a member of the state purchasing commission in the Glaspalast, an art advisory board for the municipal painting collection, chairman of the "Exhibitor Association of Munich Artists" (AVMK) and the artist group "The Forty Eighth" and a committee member of the Munich Art Association. As a member of the Bavarian State Committee for Nature Conservation, he succeeded Gabriel von Seidl as chairman of the “ Isar Valley Association ”.

Works (selection)

Dachau, Museum Association:

• March day in the Dachauer Moos , 1906; Oil / canvas, 62 × 45 cm; Inv.nr. GG 12.1; Color illus .: Reitmeier (3), p. 171
• Ignatius Taschner's house , oil / canvas, 47.5 × 65.5 cm; Inv.nr. GG 12.3

Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Wilhelm Hack Museum:

• View into the country near Kassel , 69 × 50 cm

Munich, Bavarian State Painting Collections:

• Isartal II , 1928; Oil / canvas, 70 × 100 cm; Acquired in the Glaspalast in 1928; Inv.no. 9504
• Bergmoos near Seefeld in Tirol , 1914, oil / canvas, 80 × 112 cm; Acquired in the Glaspalast in 1914; Inv.no. 8792

Munich, Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus:

• Gunzburg , 1909; Oil / canvas / cardboard, 67 × 51.3 cm; Inv.nr. K 9370
• From the Mühltal , 1925; Oil / canvas, 55 × 65 cm; Inv.nr. G 189
• In Jachenau , 1929; Oil / canvas, 53 × 72.5 cm; Inv.nr. K 10749; Munich art exhibition 1930 in the Glaspalast, No. 230
• The Ampertal near Freising , 1930; Oil / canvas, 66 × 85 cm; Inv.nr. K 2387; Permanent art exhibition of the MKG, Christmas 1930 (exhibition cat., No. 5571; ill.)
• The Isar heights near Bad Tölz , 1937; Oil / canvas, 88 × 68c; Inv.nr. K 7469; Fig .: Bruckmann, Münchner Maler 1 (1981)
• In the east of Munich , 1938; Oil / canvas, 54 × 75.5 cm; Inv.nr. K 10750
• The Isar valley near Hechenberg , 1938; Oil / canvas, 53 × 73 cm; Inv.nr. K 7837
• From the Hallertau ; Fig .: Münchner newest Nachrichten 16, March 16, 1936
• Au in the Hallertau , 1939; Oil / canvas, 50 × 68 cm; Inv.nr. K 8811
• Alsenz in the Saar Palatinate , 1940; Oil / canvas, 58.5 × 73 cm; Inv.nr. G 6746
• Evening in Amorbach , oil / cardboard, 31.8 × 47.7 cm; Inv.nr. G 8978
• Meadow with piles of wood , oil / cardboard, 37.5 × 53.5 cm; Inv.nr. K 9369

Rosenheim, Städt. Gallery:

• Muhltal , 1926; Oil / canvas, 55 × 65 cm; Inv.nr. 516

Würzburg, Municipal Gallery:

• The Bridge , 1908; Oil / canvas, 49 × 68 cm; Inv.nr. E 2605

Own writings

• Isar Valley and Isar Valley Association. In: The Bayernland. 1925, pp. 435-438.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bolgiano: old name of Bozen, but also a municipality near Milan
2. ↑ The painting collection of Mr. Collegial Secretary Bolgiano (Gallerie-Str. Nro. 1, eE) In: Adressbuch München 1841, p. 196.
3. ^ Annual report on the K. Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich for the school year 1884/85.
4. ↑ matriculation 1884-1920: 00721 Ludwig Bolgiano : matrikel.adbk.de .
5. ↑ Grave No. WAT 134-W-11.

literature

• Otto Weigmann : Bolgiano, Ludwig . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 4 : Bida – Brevoort . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1910, p. 244 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Dressler's art manual 1930.
• Bolgiano, Ludwig . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 257 .
• Bruckmann's Lexicon of Munich Art . Münchner Maler im 19. Jahrhundert , Vol. 1, 1981, p. 16 (signature; ill.).
• Hans F. Schweers (ed.): Paintings in German museums : 2nd, updated, considerably expanded and improved edition, Munich [u. a.]: Saur, 1994. Part 1: Artists and their works. ISBN 3-598-10927-X .
• Hans F. Schweers (Ed.): Paintings in German museums , Part 1: Artists and their works. AG . 4th, updated and expanded edition. Catalog of the works exhibited and stored in Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-24166-6 (= Paintings in German museums ).
• Ludwig Tavernier: Bolgiano, Ludwig . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 12, Saur, Munich a. a. 1995, ISBN 3-598-22752-3 , p. 380.
• Wilhelm Zils (Hrsg.): Intellectual and artistic Munich in autobiographies. Max Keller, Munich 1913.
• Die christliche Kunst 12 (1915/16), supplement, p. 19; 17 (1920/21), p. 12.
• Yearbook of the Association for Christian Art 6 (1926), p. 332 (3 figs.).
• Die Kunst 35 (1916/17), p. 64 f. (Fig.); 83 (1940/41), pp. 261-63 (fig.); 42. Jg. (1941), pp. 261-263 (3 figs.); Volume 44 (1943), illus. P. 180.
• Hermann Uhde-Bernays: The Munich landscape painting in the 19th century. Part 2: 1850-1900 . Munich 1927. Reissued by Eberhard Ruhmer, p. 301.
• Art and Antiques Rundschau 42 (1934), p. 289 (ill.).
• Peter Breuer: Munich artists' heads . Munich 1937, pp. 15-17; (2 fig.).
• Die Weltkunst 15/16, April 13, 1941, p. 14; 17; No. 11/12, March 14, 1943, p. 1; No. 19/22, May 30, 1943, p. 1.
• The artwork 3 (1949), no. 1: Personalalien, p. 53.
• Lorenz Josef Reitmeier: Dachau. Views and testimonies from twelve centuries . Volume 1, 3 and Addendum (images). Dachau 1976 ff. (Volume 3, 1982, p. 171, color illus. 651: A March day in the Dachauer Moos 1906)
• Heidi C. Ebertshäuser: Painting in the 19th Century. Munich School . Munich 1979, p. 171.
• Hans Heyn: South German painting from the Bavarian highlands . Rosenheim [1980].
• Siegfried Weiß : 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. 232-237 (fig.).