Ludwig Wilding

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Ludwig Wilding (born May 19, 1927 in Grünstadt ; † January 4, 2010 in Buchholz in the Nordheide ) was a German painter and object artist. His works are assigned to the styles of kinetic art and op art .

life and work

Work by Ludwig Wilding with reflective viewer

Wilding studied art history and philosophy in Mainz and Stuttgart and then worked as a designer in the textile industry. In the 1960s he was a member of the New Tendencies art movement . Between 1964 and 1990 Ludwig Wilding took part in a total of sixteen annual DKB exhibitions as a full member of the German Association of Artists . From 1969 to 1992 Wilding was a professor at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg . In 2007 Ludwig and Ingeborg Wilding founded the Foundation for Concrete Art and Design together with the city of Ingolstadt.

Ludwig Wilding's starting point was the line. By superimposing two-dimensional line structures (the moiré effect), the artist explored irritations in visual perception and generated pseudo-movements, virtuality, stereoscopies, paradoxical bodies and anamorphoses. With his works, Wilding constructed situations that go beyond the usual art experience and give the viewer the opportunity to consciously experience a personal experience. Therefore Wilding's art promotes the dissolution of role differences between artist and viewer in favor of an activating participation of the viewer. In addition, his pictures do not have any prior knowledge of cultural codes and focus on the sensual level of experience. Art becomes “art for everyone”, as the artist groups Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel (GRAV) and the loose association Nouvelles Tendances put it in the 1960s. At the same time, Wilding began to grapple with the moiré and also felt connected to the demands of the observer-dependent movements. Wilding's goal was to change and activate perception that is conditioned and shaped by everyday and work processes. The moiré effect in particular should not only irritate the viewer, but also draw attention to the constructiveness of perception and vision. The visual illusion ideally leads to the process of reflective thinking.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1953: Young German painters , Leverkusen Museum
  • 1954: Kunstkabinett, Duisburg
  • 1960: Duisburg bookstore
  • 1961: Zimmergalerie Franck, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1963: Nove Tendencije 2 , Musej suvremene umjetnosti, Zagreb
  • 1964: Nouvelle Tendance , Museé des Arts décoratifs, Paris
  • 1965: Denise René Gallery, Paris; The Responsive Eye , Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • 1971: Art Museum Düsseldorf
  • 1973: Cologne Art Association
  • 1974: Museum for Arts and Crafts Hamburg
  • 1975: Leopold Hoesch Museum , Düren
  • 1976: Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf ; Galleria Sincron, Brescia
  • 1977: Congress of Perceptual Psychology, Marburg
  • 1978: Galerie Klihm, Munich; Studio A, Otterndorf
  • 1979: Galerie Schoeller , Düsseldorf
  • 1980: Galerie Christel, Stockholm
  • 1981: Wilbrand Gallery, Cologne; Gilman Galleries, Chicago
  • 1982: Isetan Museum, Tokyo; Museum Square , Bottrop; Schoeller Gallery, Düsseldorf
  • 1983: Arte programmata e cinetica , Palazzo Reale , Milan
  • 1986: Max Planck Institute, Bad Nauheim
  • 1987: Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern ; Mathematics in Art of the Last Thirty Years , Wilhelm Hack Museum , Ludwigshafen; Meißner Gallery, Hamburg
  • 1988: Ulmer Museum , Ulm; Herrmanns Gallery, Munich
  • 1990: Overbeck Society , Lübeck; Jenoptik Gallery, Jena
  • 1993: Art Studio 1, yours
  • 1994: Galerie Schickler, Nuremberg
  • 1997: Landesmuseum Mainz ; Alf-Krister Job Gallery, Mainz
  • 1999: Galerie am Platz, Eglisaus; Schoeller Gallery, Düsseldorf
  • 2000: Galerie St.Johann, Saarbrücken; Zulauf Gallery, Freinsheim
  • 2001: Art Studio 1, yours
  • 2002: Museum of the City of Grünstadt; Gallery on Lindenplatz, Vaduz; Hoffmann Gallery, Freidberg
  • 2003 Old Town Hall, Göttingen ; Gallery for Concrete Art, Berlin
  • 2004: Arte Struktura , Milan; Galerie Wosimsky, Giessen; Eyes, Lies and Illusions , Hayward-Gallery, London (Nekes Collection)
  • 2005: L'Œil Moteur , Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg; Winkelmann Gallery, Düsseldorf; One year 40 positions 31 rooms , Museum Modern Art, Hünfeld; Gallery for Concrete Art, Potsdam; International Congress Center Vienna , Vienna
  • 2006: Art Studio 1, yours; Wack Gallery, Kaiserslautern; The Intelligible Non-Violent Art , Atlas Sztuki Gallery, Lodz; The New Tendencies , Museum for Concrete Art Ingolstadt; Eyes, Lies and Illusions , cmi, Melbourne (Nekes Coll.)
  • 2007 Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; Op Art, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt am Main, Museum for Concrete Art Ingolstadt; Ludwig Wilding: Visual Phenomena , Museum for Concrete Art Ingolstadt
  • 2008: Galerie La Ligne, Zurich
  • 2015: Galerie La Ligne, Zurich Opposition
  • 2017: Light & Movement , Kunsthalle Messmer , Riegel am Kaiserstuhl (with Carlos Cruz-Diez , Kammerer-Luka , Hans Kotter , Siegfried Kreitner , Regine Schumann , Victor Vasarely )
  • 2018: Ludwig Wilding: 10 years Foundation for Concrete Art and Design , Museum for Concrete Art Ingolstadt

Books

  • Ludwig Wilding. Retrospective 1949-1987 , published by the Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern.
  • Visual phenomena , July 2007, Ines Bauer, Tobias Hoffmann, Wienand Verlag, Museum for Concrete Art, Foundation for Concrete Art and Design Ingolstadt - ISBN 3-87909-926-X
  • artist of the foundation for concrete art and design ingolstadt 01 , 2012, Tobias Hoffmann, Wienand Verlag - ISBN 978-3-86832-133-3

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zschocke, Nina. ludwig wilding. In: Hoffmann, Tobias (Ed.). artist of the foundation for concrete art and design ingolstadt. Wienand, Cologne 2012. p. 11.
  2. ↑ s. Art report: nineteen hundred three | nineteen ninety-five. An overview of the German Artists Association , special edition Winter 1994/95, Bonn 1995. ISBN 3-929283-08-5 (p. 135)
  3. ↑ s. Wilding, Ludwig , in: Hans Vollmer (Ed.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. Fifth volume (VZ, supplements AG) , EA Seemann, Leipzig 1999 (study edition). ISBN 3-363-00730-2 (p. 134)
  4. ↑ Jürgen Haberer: Messmer Art Gallery in Riegel: Illusions through light. In: baden online (bo.de). November 25, 2017. Retrieved December 11, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Light and Movement. In: kunsthallemessmer.de. Retrieved December 11, 2017 . }

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personal data
SURNAME Wilding, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and object artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Grünstadt
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 2010
Place of death Buchholz in the north heath