Ludwig Willroider
Ludwig Willroider (born January 11, 1845 in Villach , Carinthia ; † May 22, 1910 Bernried am Starnberger See ) was an Austrian landscape painter and etcher .
Life
Ludwig Willroider was the second son of the town architect Josef Willroider and his wife Josefa, née Kleinberger, and the younger brother of Josef Willroider . Like his older brother Josef, Ludwig had completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter in his father's workshop before turning to painting . He received drawing lessons from his brother Josef Willroider and Ludwig Canziani (1821-1891), who were seven years older than him.
In 1866, at the age of 23, he went to Munich to continue his education and study at the local academy . Like his brother Josef, he received important suggestions from Eduard Schleich the Elder (1812–1874) and especially from Adolf Heinrich Lier (1826–1882) (who at that time was perhaps the central figure in Munich landscape painting even before Eduard Schleich). Although Ludwig was not accepted into Lier's class, he was very close to his circle.
At the academy he closely followed Carl Ebert (1821–1885), who accompanied him on trips. Ebert from Stuttgart , who lived in Munich since 1860, belonged to the circle of Swabian painters around Christian Friedrich Mali (1832–1906) and Anton Braith (1836–1905) who had already dealt intensively with open-air painting in the 1860s . Braith and Mali had a large studio building built on Landwehrstrasse in Munich in 1870/1871 , the so-called Schwabenburg, in which they made studios available to seven compatriots free of charge.
While Josef was present at exhibitions in Düsseldorf through the artists' association Malkasten and was praised in the reviews, Ludwig in Munich was able to book numerous honors, medals and commendations at exhibitions in the Munich Glass Palace . During these years both were represented at almost all major art exhibitions in Germany. Ludwig found his motifs in the Upper Bavarian landscape, especially on Lake Starnberg and in the Isar Valley , as well as in Carinthia, the country of his birth . From 1886 there are also motifs from South Tyrol and Northern Italy.
During his time in Munich, he regularly stayed in Carinthia for long periods, mostly in Viktring near Moro. The 1860s and 1870s took him on study trips to Holland. In 1883 he was made an honorary member of the Munich Academy, in 1886 Willroider received the title of professor from Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria . Willroider lived in Munich and on Lake Starnberg until his death in 1910.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Willroider, Ludwig . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 56th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1888, p. 199 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century . 2nd volume.
- Ludwig Willroider . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 35 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Ludwig Willroider in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Willroider, Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 11, 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Villach , Carinthia |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 22, 1910 |
| Place of death | Bernried on Lake Starnberg |