Ludwig Engler

Ludwig Engler (born August 25, 1875 in Villingen in the Black Forest ; † August 7, 1922 on the trip to Munich ) was a German painter and sculptor .

life and work

The information on Ludwig Engler's life is sparse. He was born in Villingen in 1875 as the son of the drawing teacher Anton Engler, completed an apprenticeship as a sculptor in Elzach in 1890/91 and studied at the Munich Art Academy from 1897 to 1904 , where he may also have received teaching assignments. Study trips took him to Germany and abroad. After his participation in the First World War , he ran studios in Munich , Konstanz and Villingen. Engler initially worked mainly as a sculptor before turning to painting. He died of a heart attack on August 17, 1922 at the age of 47. Together with Albert Säger, Engler is one of the outstanding Villingen painters at the turn of the century, whose works shaped the artists of subsequent generations such as Richard Ackermann . For his motifs he often used biblical and literary subjects, which he processed into symbolically dense, often ambivalent arrangements in the style of James Ensor .

literature

• Profession: artist. Work and living conditions Villingen painter in the first half of our century , exhibition catalog, Verlag der Stadt Villingen-Schwenningen, ibid. 1998, ISBN 3-927987-48-4 .
• Lust and passion, pain and disappointment. Expressionist artists in Villingen , exhibition catalog, Verlag der Stadt Villingen-Schwenningen, ibid. 2019, ISBN 978-3-939423-77-5