Ludwig Feil

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Ludwig Feil (born January 4, 1910 in Worms , † August 3, 1980 in Mannheim ) was a German educator , painter and graphic artist .

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Ludwig Feil learned from Panitz, Kuhl and Mitlerbauer at the State Art College in Mainz and from the painters Jost and Henselmann. From 1938 he lived in Mannheim. As a senior teacher and art teacher, he taught at the Heinrich-Lanz-Gewerbeschule (Mannheim) until 1975.

His repertoire is diverse and covers artistic techniques such as drypoint etching , colored wood and linocuts , wood engravings , oil and watercolor painting , pencil and pen drawing. Besides nude studies and portraits, his subjects are mainly the bizarre world of jugglers and crooks .

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1955 Graphic at the Buck brothers, Mannheim
  • 1956 Kunsthaus Heylshof ; Organizer: Cultural Office of the City of Worms
  • 1962 Rödel Art School, Mannheim
  • 1963 Exhibition of the Rödel Art School in Caen - Salon International Bosio, Monaco -
  • 1963 Solo exhibition in the Electoral Palace in Mainz
  • 1964 “ House of Art ”, Munich
  • 1966 Galerie Inge Seifert-Binder, Munich - Palais de la Scala Monte Carlo
  • 1968 Galerie Europa (Europa Center Berlin)
  • 1969 Merino Gallery, Worms
  • 1970 Voelter Gallery, Ludwigsburg
  • 1972 Gutenberg Book Guild (artist cellar) - together with the "Free Group 72", Mannheim
  • 1976 Monte Carlo - "Palme d'Or des Beaux-Arts"

Works (selection)

  • Mannheim market square (1941)
  • Dream city (watercolor / 1957)
  • Horse studies (coal / 1959)
  • Tingl-Tangl (drypoint etching)
  • Noble couple (watercolor study / 1973)
  • Prima Donna (linocut; hand print)
  • Dreaming (oil painting / 1977)
  • High Society (1980)
  • Twilight (1980)
  • Bal paré (drypoint)

literature

  • Sven-Wieland Staps: Feil, Ludwig . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 37, Saur, Munich a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-598-22777-9 , p. 536.
  • 1966 Publication of woodcuts in the magazine "Die Kunst und das Schöne Heim", Bruckmann-Verlag, Munich
  • 1967 Publication of the work "Drypoint Repertory Arts"
  • international art bulletin (iab), Monte Carlo, 1977, p. 11
  • IV Salon International Bosio, catalog (1963)