Ludwig Probst

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Ludwig Probst (born February 2, 1864 in Braunschweig , † March 17, 1942 in Braunschweig) was a German painter and university professor.

Life

Probst received his first lessons from his father Albert, who worked as a xylograph in Braunschweig . He studied at the Technical University of Braunschweig , where Adolf Nickol was one of his teachers. He continued his studies in 1890 at the Dresden Art Academy with Leon Pohle , Hermann Prell and Scholz. Probst returned to Braunschweig in 1893, where he opened a studio at Bültenweg 10. From 1903 to 1940 he taught as a private lecturer for painting and sculpture at the chair for architecture at the TH Braunschweig. Probst died in Braunschweig in 1942. In the same year, the City Museum honored him with a memorial exhibition.

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Probst created portraits, nudes, landscapes, cityscapes and industrial pictures, mainly painting in oil . He was best known as a portrait painter. He created portraits of city clergymen, including General Superintendent Werner Bertram , industrialists, Wilhelm Raabe and Duke Johann Albrecht zu Mecklenburg . His works are in the Städtisches Museum Braunschweig and many of them are privately owned.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wulf Otte: Probst, Ludwig . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 470 .
  2. ↑ Braunschweig address book for the year 1903 , Verlag Joh. Heinr. Meyer, Braunschweig 1903, p. 262
personal data
SURNAME Probst, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1942
Place of death Braunschweig