Ludwig Chateau

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Ludwig Edmund Chateau (born November 8, 1906 in Düsseldorf ; † January 20, 1975 ) was a Düsseldorf artist and sculptor.

Life

Ludwig Chateau, born as the son of the locksmith Joseph Chateau (1878–1942) and his wife Maria, b. Kaiser (* 1879), studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Hubert Netzer and Alexander Zschokke . He became known as the “master of small forms” through his small-format animal sculptures with reduced forms. The art association for the Rhineland and Westphalia has published the bronze figures duck (1973), hedgehog (around 1965) and humpback cattle (1969) as limited annual editions. Chateau called his animal sculptures with their soft curves "finger flatterers". The Rheinische Post wrote in an article about the memorial exhibition Chateaus: “The concentration he invested in his work is its power and charisma. Impulsive life and controlled, reducing abstraction are brought into formal equilibrium in them. "

Works (selection)

  • Little duck (1950/1969), small sculpture, patinated bronze
  • Igel (1965), small sculpture, patinated bronze
  • Buckelrind (1969), small sculpture, patinated bronze, annual gift of the Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia
  • Ente (1973), small sculpture, bronze, annual gift of the Kunstverein for the Rhineland and Westphalia
  • Jug bearer , small sculpture, bronze, patinated
  • Bear , small sculpture, bronze, patinated
  • Small bison , small sculpture, bronze

Exhibitions

literature

  • Malkasten Artists' Association (Ed.): Malkastenblätter , Issue 3/1967, pp. 10-11

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. City Archives Düsseldorf, micro-filmed population register (MF 1531)
  2. Winfried Göllner: Neue Rhein Zeitung Thursday, August 28, 1975 No. 198
  3. Yvonne Friedrichs: Rheinische Post Friday, September 5, 1975 No. 205