Ludwig Zerull
Ludwig Zerull (born January 5, 1942 in Starogard ; † January 10, 2011 in Hanover ) was a German visual artist, author and art consultant .
Life
In 1945, Zerull's parents took their son with them on the run from West Prussia . At the beginning of the 1950s, they reached Hanover's old town and found an apartment on Kniehauerstrasse. Zerull attended the Ratsgymnasium Hannover and after graduating from high school studied painting and art education at the young University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig . From 1969 Zerull worked for ten years as editor of the magazine Kunst + Studium . In the season 1978/79 he worked as a dramaturge at the theater in Nuremberg and from 1988 to 1989 as the chief set designer in Münster . Mostly he worked as a freelancer. He advised the Lower Saxony Sparkassen- und Girozentrale on the purchase of art, wrote reports on independent theaters and thus influenced the allocation of funds by the Lower Saxony Lotto Foundation . Zerull wrote books, among others about the painters Franz Belting , Werner Nöfer , Karl Schaper and Peter Basseler .
He painted throughout his life; predominantly large-format representational images with unusual perspectives.
Zerull lived at Kniehauerstrasse 17 until his death. He died of a stroke on January 5, 2011.
Fonts (selection)
- Karl Schaper , Westermann, Braunschweig 1984, ISBN 3-14-509124-7
- Ludwig Zerull (Red., Layout): Hanoverian painter of the New Objectivity. An exhibition of the Lower Saxony Sparkassenstiftung with pictures from the collections of the Stadtsparkasse Hannover, Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung and the Sprengel Museum Hannover , richly illustrated accompanying publication to the traveling exhibition 1991 at the University of Leipzig, the Stadtsparkasse Hannover, the Augusteum of the Landesmuseum Oldenburg, the Städtisches Museum Göttingen, the cultural history Museum Osnabrück and the Museum for the Principality of Lüneburg, Ed .: Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung, Hanover: Th.Schäfer Druckerei (printing), 1991
- Art without a roof. Sculptures and objects in the cityscape of Hanover , Hanover: Edition Libri Artis, Schäfer, 1992, ISBN 3-88746-278-5
- Werner Nöfer , Art of the Present from Lower Saxony, Ed. Niedersächsische Lottostiftung, Hanover 2009, 79 pages, ISBN 9783000273681
literature
- Lienhard von Monkiewitsch , Reinhard Scheibe , Giso Westing (eds.): Ludwig Zerull. Mediator, designer, chronicler, bon vivant , ed. on behalf of his friends, with contributions by Marianne Kuschfeldt-Zerull, Jürgen Strube, Theo Strutz, Malte Sartorius, Siegfried Neuenhausen , Dietrich Helms , Stephan Lohr, Karl-Ernst Bungenstab , Peter Ries , Ulrich Krempel , Alexandra Glanz, Oskar Ansull , Dietrich H Hoppenstedt , Gerhard Schröder , Frank Seidel, Kalle Bertram, Henning Rischbieter and Hanna Kreisel-Liebermann, total production: ArtnetworX GmbH, Hanover, 2012
Web links
- Literature by and about Ludwig Zerull in the catalog of the German National Library
- Henning Rischbieter: The art critic Ludwig Zerull has died , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of January 11, 2011, last accessed on January 15, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zerull, Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German visual artist, author and art advisor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 5, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Starogard |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 10, 2011 |
| Place of death | Hanover |