Ludwig Peter Kowalski

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Ludwig Peter Kowalski (born August 1, 1891 in Königshütte (Upper Silesia) , † July 5, 1967 in Berlin ) was a German painter. He created the round windows in Berlin's Kaiser Friedrich Memorial Church . He was an artistic companion and close friend of the expressionist Otto Mueller .

Life

Kowalski studied at the Academy for Arts and Crafts in Breslau under Hans Poelzig . From 1914 to 1918 he served as a front soldier in World War I. He then went on several study trips to Italy, which had a strong personal and artistic influence on him. From 1927 Kowalski worked at the Crafts and Applied Arts School in Wroclaw, first as head of the nude hall and later as head of the painting department, officially also known as the study department. In 1934 he was dismissed as undesirable by the National Socialists. In 1945 he fled Wroclaw and lost his artistic work. Kowalski lived in Berlin from 1949. Glass windows and other large-format glass art works were created here.

Ludwig Peter Kowalski was a member of the Künstlerbund Schlesien , since 1928 in the Deutscher Künstlerbund and since 1926 in the group together with the expressionist Otto Mueller .

Works

His artistic work includes portraits, still lifes, landscapes and city impressions. His watercolors, which are among others in the Gallery of the 20th Century in Berlin, deserve special mention. The focus of the last two decades of his life is on his glass artworks. He created the glass windows in the assembly room of the Bundeshaus Berlin , as well as the five round windows in the Kaiser-Friedrich-Gedächtniskirche . Other works in Berlin were a cut glass wall in the foyer of the Schiller Theater , windows in St. Rita , the Luisenkirche , Herz-Jesu-Kirche , St. Elisabeth , St. Ansgar and in the Wilhelm-Weskamm-Haus, as well as the colored glass wall in the German homeland of the east .

Quotes

“Its monumental, figurative and ornamental window wall in the foyer of the Berlin Schillertheater gives the room its great festive cheerfulness.” (Hugo Hartung, magazine “Schlesien”, year 12, 1967) - “... watercolors of exquisite beauty and vegetative magic of his flower pieces, up to the many girls and women nudes, whose posture and gesture have an inexpressibly chaste grace. "(ibid.)

literature

  • Cornelius Müller Hofstede : Monumental glass painting by Ludwig Peter Kowalski in Silesia , 1940.
  • Hugo Hartung : Schlesien (magazine), year 12, 1967.
  • Agnes Kern: Ludwig Peter Kowalski. About a contradicting career as an artist between the avant-garde, "German art" and post-war modernism . In: Dagmar Schmengler u. a. (Ed.): Painter. Mentor. Magician. Otto Mueller and his network in Breslau, Heidelberg a. a .: Kehrer 2018. ISBN 978-3-86828-873-5 , pp. 168–177.

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Peter Kowalski  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry Kaiser-Friedrich-Gedächtniskirche . In: Monuments in Berlin . P. 332. Community letter of the Evangelical Kaiser-Friedrich-Gedächtnis-Kirchengemeinde in the Hansaviertel . October / November 2008.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Kaiser-Friedrich-Gedächtnis-Kirche . ( Memento of the original from August 30, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.oekumene24.de    @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oekumene24.de
  2. ^ Dressler's art manual . The book of public art care vol. 13, Berlin 1934, keyword "Crafts and Applied Arts School in Breslau". Quoted from Petra Hölscher: Gerhart Hein in Breslau - bricklayer and painting student, note 7. In: Gerhart Hein - The imaginary substance, pp. 9–19, here p. 17
  3. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Kowalski, Ludwig Peter ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (accessed on September 24, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  4. ↑ (see itemization 1, there under the heading Window )
personal data
SURNAME Kowalski, Ludwig Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Königshütte (Upper Silesia)
DATE OF DEATH 5th July 1967
Place of death Berlin