Ludwig Scharl (painter)
Ludwig "Wigg" Scharl (born July 9, 1929 in Munich , Nymphenburg , † 2011 in Amerang ) was a German painter whose works can be classified as Expressionism . He was the nephew of the famous painter and graphic artist Josef Scharl .
biography
Scharl was the son of Ludwig and Therese Scharl. In 1940 his father was killed by the National Socialists due to a serious chronic illness. As a widow, his mother was solely responsible for bringing up the two sons. In addition to his apprenticeship as a painter and varnisher, Scharl studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , among others with Xaver Fuhr . From 1954 he worked as a freelance painter. He lived and worked in Munich with his wife Ernesta. They married in 1958; both had a son.
From 1964 to 1975 he worked as a freelance restorer for works of art from the 1920s, including for the Nierendorf Gallery . In 1967 he received the water lily prize of the city of Munich. In 1978 he was appointed professor of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg . After his retirement in 1994, Scharl lived and worked in the village of Amerang in Chiemgau .
Further memberships
- from 1957 member of the artist group "Pavillon"
- from 1961 member of the New Munich Artists' Cooperative (NMKG)
- 1963–2000 permanent member of the board of the Neue Münchner Künstlergenossenschaft and juror
- 1963–2001 member of the exhibition management at Haus der Kunst , Munich
- 1985–1988 President of the NMKG
- from 1988 honorary president of the NMKG
- 1987–1988 President of the Exhibition Management of the Haus der Kunst, Munich
- 1997 member of working group 68 (AK68), Wasserburg
- 1998 Board member (artistic director) AK68
Exhibitions
Group exhibitions
- 1956 “Pavillon”, Old Botanical Garden, Munich
- 1957 6th exhibition by the artist group Pavillon
- 1960 Gallery of the German Book Association (together with the sculptor Will Elfes )
- 1960 New Gallery in Ingolstadt
- 1960 Exhibition of the Association of Visual Artists, Pavilion Munich
- 1961 "New Realists", Pavilion Munich
- 1962 Gurlitt Gallery, Munich
- 1963 Dominican cloister, Bolzano
- 1965 Wiesbaden Museum
- 1966 "Situation 66 - European Art", Augsburg
- 1966 “Metamorphoses of a Face. The portrait in contemporary art ”, Haus der Kunst , Munich
- 1967 "Intergraphik", Augsburg, Berlin, Moritzburg, Halle, Rostock
- 1967 “Seerose Artist Prize”, Munich
- 1970 Künstlerhaus Nuremberg
- 1972 "New Munich Artists' Cooperative", traveling exhibition in the Westfalen Sauerland Museum in Arnsberg
- 1974 Margelik Gallery, Munich
- 1975 BMW Gallery Hamburg and Bonn
- 1979 "Seerose", Regensburg City Museum
- 1984 " Xaver Fuhr / Ludwig Scharl - Encounters between teacher and student"
- 1984 Museum Gallery Bozen
- 2019 "Looked in the face", Gallery Villa Maria, Bad Aibling
Solo exhibitions
- 1968 Richard P. Hartmann Gallery, Munich
- 1969 Munich Patent Office
- 1977 Galerie Nierendorf , Berlin
- 1989 Südstadt-Galerie, Cologne
- 1997 AK68, Wasserburg
- 2000 Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin
- 2001 Galerie Nierendorf - graphics exhibition
- 2002 exhibition in Sarajevo
- 2002 Hartmannsberg Castle
- 2004 "5 decades of pictures by Ludwig Scharl", Wasserburg
- 2008 "Faces", Gallery Villa Maria, Bad Aibling
Web links
- Newspaper article about exhibition participation in the Haus der Kunst
- Newspaper article about Ludwig Scharl in the Upper Bavarian Volksblatt
- AK68
proof
- ↑ State Capital of Munich Editor: Award winners. Retrieved May 3, 2020 .
- ^ Art Pavilion - About the Art Pavilion. 2005, accessed May 3, 2020 .
- ^ New Munich Artists' Cooperative . Retrieved May 3, 2020 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Scharl, Ludwig |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Scharl, Wigg (nickname) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 9, 1929 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich , Nymphenburg |
DATE OF DEATH | 2011 |
Place of death | Amerang |