Ludwig Grub
Ludwig Grub (born January 10, 1930 in Wiesbach (Pfalz) , † December 16, 2007 in Kaiserslautern ) was a German graphic artist, painter and sculptor.
life and work
Ludwig Grub was born in Wiesbach on the Sickinger Höhe in 1930. He studied painting and graphics with Boris Kleint at the State School for Arts and Crafts in Saarbrücken .
During his training at the State School for Arts and Crafts in Saarbrücken under Boris Kleint, he created not only academic drawings, portraits and nudes, but also reportage-like descriptions of everyday life that capture the hardship of the post-war period. In his early drawings, executed with fine lines, monstrous, thick-bodied hybrid creatures between animals and humans have gathered in a demonic bustle. Fantastic worlds characterize his entire work, which can be attributed to fantastic art.
Ludwig Grub liked to go on expeditions. He did this not only in the traditional sense, but also when he worked wood or stone. This became clear with one of his favorite materials: boulders made from diabase rock. Ludwig Grub viewed every boulder as an individual and, when processing it, took into account its shape, which has grown over the course of natural history. Ludwig Grub's stone sculptures are not the product of an imaginary design. Under no circumstances should strange shapes be imposed on the stone.
The artist has created several works for public spaces. So he designed the fountain on the village square in Rodenbach and carried out some of the work on the sculpture path there. Seven stone sculptures also adorn the Kusel market square.
Grub lived for many years in Rodenbach and most recently in Kusel and Butte des Suin (Burgundy); he died on December 16, 2007 in Kaiserslautern. The urn burial took place on January 10, 2008 in the main cemetery in Homburg .
literature
- Michael Seyl : Fine arts in the Kusel area. Printing and publishing house Koch, Kusel 1994, p. 30f.
- Ludwig Grub: 1930 - 2007 . Published by Marlene Jochem, Kulturamt Stadt Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern 2011
Web links
- Memorial page on Michael Seyl's homepage
- Excerpts from an S-8 film from the 1970s
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry in the general artist lexicon
- ↑ weilerbach.de. Retrieved March 28, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grub, Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German graphic artist, painter and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 10, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wiesbach (Palatinate) |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 16, 2007 |
| Place of death | Kaiserslautern |