Ludwig Burger
Ludwig Burger (born September 19, 1825 in Krakow , † October 22, 1884 in Berlin ) was a German painter , draftsman and medalist .
Life
Ludwig Burger, son of German parents, lived in Warsaw from the age of 14 to 17 , where he made his first attempts at lithography and with the etching needle. In Berlin since 1842, he attended the art academy there , while at the same time, in order to earn a living, he provided illustrations for the book trade. Some of his work was also published in the Illustrirten Zeitung , including portraits of personalities from German history (on the occasion of important anniversaries).
He temporarily worked in the studio of the painter Karl Wilhelm Kolbe , worked as a draftsman in a playing card factory in Stralsund from 1846 to 1847 and went on a study trip to Antwerp and Paris in 1852 . In Paris he took lessons from Thomas Couture .
From 1854 to 1859 he was a member of the Sunday literary association "Tunnel over the Spree".
Among his numerous works, the drawings for the works of Theodor Fontane about the Schleswig-Holstein War of 1864 and the German War of 1866 are to be highlighted, as well as "The emancipated Amazon Army", caricatures of women in uniform in eight color lithographs (approx. 1850) , also his work “Die Kanone”, a cycle of some twenty sheets, created in 1866 and 1867.
From 1869 he turned to decorative work. The murals in the reading room and city council meeting room of the Berlin town hall , in the Flora zu Charlottenburg , in the cadet institute in Berlin-Lichterfelde and in the Berlin armory as well as designs for glass windows, jutarsia decorations etc.
From 1872 to 1873 he went on a study trip to Italy , from which he brought back excellently crafted studies of Renaissance decorations there.
He made designs for medals for the medalist Friedrich Wilhelm Kullrich .
Ludwig Burger died in Berlin in 1884 at the age of 59 and was buried in the Old Twelve Apostles Cemetery in Schöneberg . The grave has not been preserved.
Selected works
Empress Maria Theresa.
General Gerhard von Scharnhorst.
Prince Karl Philipp zu Schwarzenberg.
Back of the 1881 wedding medal of Wilhelm II , German Emperor and Auguste Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein
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literature
- Lukas Fuchsgruber: Burger, (Georg Conrad) Ludwig In: Savoy, Bénédicte and Nerlich, France (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 2: 1844-1870. Berlin / Boston 2015.
Web links
- Ludwig Burger in HeidICON illustrations of the flying leaves
Individual evidence
- ^ L. Forrer: Burger, L. In: Biographical Dictionary of Medallists . tape VII . Spink & Son, London 1923, p. 140 .
- ^ Hermann von Helmholtz Center for Cultural Technology
- ^ Klaus Sommer: The medals of the royal Prussian court medalists Christoph Carl Pfeuffer and Friedrich Wilhelm Kullrich . Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1986, p. 93 .
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 750.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Burger, Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and draftsman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1825 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krakow |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 22, 1884 |
| Place of death | Berlin |