Ludwig Klimek
Ludwig Klimek , also Ludwik Klimek , artist name Ludovic (* 1912 in Skotschau , Austria-Hungary ; † before December 10, 1992 in Nice , France ) was a Polish artist who lived in France since 1939 and worked as a painter .
Live and act
Youth and education
The extended family lived with 12 children in Skotschau, then in Austria-Hungary , and the father ran a shop as a merchant. With the establishment of the Second Polish Republic in November 1918, the region with Skoczów belonged to the national territory of Poland. After graduating from high school in Cieszyn , Ludwik Klimek began studying art and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and then traveled to Paris on a scholarship in the spring of 1939 . He often visited the Louvre and admired the original works of art by Titians , Francisco de Goyas , Nicolas Poussins and Peter Paul Rubens . After the attack on Poland in September 1939, he stayed in Paris.
Artistic work
He illustrated a book of fairy tales that appeared in the Polish language in Paris in 1946. After the German Wehrmacht invaded Paris, he fled to the south of France and found refuge in Aix-en-Provence - after 1947 he moved to Golfe du Lion and lived in Menton . During his painting work in Vallauris from 1951 to 1952 , he met Pablo Picasso , who lived there from 1948 to 1955. He also met Marc Chagall and was friends with him for years. Together with Henri Matisse , who lived in Vence , he founded the Biennale Internationale d'Art de Menton in 1951 and exhibited his works of art there until 1972. In 1951 and 1953 he received second prize for his pictures.
Ludwik Klimek created around 3,000 works of art - mostly as oil painting on canvas , less than watercolor , pastel painting and gouache . Because of the son's long-term illness, he sold most of his works of art.
In his works of art there are often female figures bathing, naiads , mermaids , heliads , sirens as spiritual borrowings from myths and legends as well as landscapes and still life paintings .
The burial took place on December 11, 1992 in Antibes .
Works of art (selection)
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Awards
- 1951: Silver medal - Première Biennale Internationale d'Art de Menton
- 1953: Silver medal - Deuxième Biennale Internationale d'Art de Menton
Children's literature
- with Irena Lewulis, Bronisław Kamiński: Bajki . Impr. Les Presses rapides, Paris 1946.
Web links
- Biographical note - Ludwig Klimek (French).
- Works of art at Artnet AG
- Klimek expert and specialist (French).
Individual evidence
- ^ Janusz Jarosławski: Ludwik (Ludwig) Klimek - kilka słów. (Biographical note). (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 23, 2013 ; Retrieved on August 4, 2013 (Polish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Marta Chrzanowska-Foltzer: Conversations Provençales - (...). (PDF; 255 kB) Université Aix-Marseille I - Université de Provence, pp. 140–141 , accessed on August 4, 2013 (French, 2006–2007).
- ^ Henri Matisse. Menton International Biennial - 1951. Accessed August 5, 2013 (French).
- ↑ Marta Chrzanowska-Foltzer: "Rozmowy prowansalskie" - polscy malarze na południu Francji od 1909 do dziś. (PDF; 218 kB) Archiwum Emigracji, Toruń, 2011, pp. 308–309 , accessed on August 4, 2013 (Polish).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Klimek, Ludwig |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Klimek, Ludwik; Ludovic (stage name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish artist and French painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Skoczów , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | before December 10, 1992 |
| Place of death | Nice , France |