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

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
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

[1] State Capital of Munich Editor: Award winners. Retrieved May 3, 2020 .

[2] Art Pavilion - About the Art Pavilion. 2005, accessed May 3, 2020 .

[3] New Munich Artists' Cooperative . Retrieved May 3, 2020 .