Ludwig Most

August Ludwig Most , often also Ludwig August Most (* March 10, 1807 in Stettin ; † June 27, 1883 ibid;) was a Pomeranian painter of the Biedermeier era . In his day he was one of the most famous artists in Szczecin.

Life

Ludwig Most was the son of the Szczecin master locksmith Johann Christian Most (1765–1813) and his wife Anna Charlotte (1778–1842). From 1824 to 1825 he received apprenticeship training with the painter Thiele in Stargard in Pomerania . He studied from 1825 to 1827 and from 1829 to 1830 at the Berlin Academy of the Arts . His teacher was the history painter Heinrich Lengerich . From 1829 he was a member of the Association of Younger Artists in Berlin . After graduating, he stayed in Dresden for several years .

In 1830 he married Caroline Krüger (1805–1840) from Berlin. Two daughters of her five children died in the first years of life. After the birth of his son Otto, he also lost his wife. He later went into a second marriage with Laura Fritz (1812–1900). Their daughter Karoline died at the age of nine.

An exhibition of his works in Stettin in 1834 was very well received. At his suggestion, the Art Association for Pomerania in Stettin was founded in the same year , of which Most was a member. From 1835 the association regularly organized art and trade exhibitions.

On December 1, 1841, Ludwig Most took the position of second drawing teacher at the Marienstiftsgymnasium in Szczecin . With an annual salary of 300 Reichstalers , he had to teach up to ten hours a week. The impressionist Eugen Dekkert was one of his students. Stettin remained his main place of activity until the end of his life, but he made numerous trips through Germany.

When he could no longer teach after several strokes in the previous years from June 1883, he decided at the age of 77 to apply for retirement, but died on June 27th. He was buried in the Grabow cemetery (Polish: Stefan Zeromski Park) in Stettin.

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In addition to portrait and genre painting , Ludwig Most also worked as a landscape and vedute painter . His complete oeuvre consists of around 280 works. Eight of his sketchbooks are preserved in the archive of the Folk Museum in Szczecin. Some of his sketchbooks were lost in World War II .

Ludwig Most published five pictures as early as 1826 as a student at the academy. His painting Inner view of the Marienkirche in Stargard (1828) was made by King Friedrich Wilhelm III. acquired by Prussia .

His views of Stettin and Pyritz are considered important . His Szczecin pictures such as the painting Szczecin Castle from the Midnight Side (1828) were used to reconstruct the Szczecin Palace of the griffin dukes in the 1980s. His depictions of rural life in Pomerania are particularly valuable because of the detailed depiction of the Weizack costume , as they are the oldest pictorial representations of the Weizack costume.

Popular motifs for him were also farmhouse parlors, small town life and pictures in taverns. The painting Schlesische Gebirgsbaude contains a self-portrait of Most. As a portrait painter he created portraits of numerous, in his day outstanding citizens of Szczecin.

On the occasion of his 200th birthday, a special exhibition of his works was organized in 2007, which was shown one after the other in the National Museum in Stettin and in the Pomeranian State Museum in Greifswald .

literature

• Eckhard Wendt: Ludwig Most, a Szczecin painter . In: Pomerania Art-History-Folkness . Issue 4/1988, ISSN  0032-4167 , pp. 7-13.
• Eckhard Wendt: The most important Szczecin painter of the 19th century. August Ludwig Most for his 200th birthday. In: Stettiner Bürgerbrief. No. 33 (2007), ISSN  1619-6201 , pp. 36-46.
• Ewa Gwiazdowska: The works of August Ludwig Most as a reflection of the ideals of Biedermeier . In: Gerd-Helge Vogel (Hrsg.): The world in large and small: Art and science around Alexander von Humboldt u. August Ludwig Most . Berlin 2009, pp. 335–355. ISBN 978-3-86732-045-0 digital copy (PDF; 12.0 MB)
• Gerd-Helge Vogel (Ed.): The world in large and small. Art and science in the circle of Alexander von Humboldt and August Ludwig Most. Festschrift for the 100th birthday of the Caspar David Friedrich Institute at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald. Protocol Volume of the XI. and XII. Greifswald Romantic Conference and the 1st Zurich Symposium on Scientific Illustration. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86732-045-0 .

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Most  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

1. ↑ Eckhard Wendt: The Ludwig Most Year . In: Pomerania. Journal of Culture and History . Issue 1/2007, ISSN  0032-4167 , pp. 46-47.