Ludwig Medal

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Ludwig Medal

The Ludwig Medal for Science and Art was donated on August 25, 1872 by King Ludwig II of Bavaria for services to science, art and industry in two versions. The medal is made of gold and shows on the front the portrait of the donor with the words LUDWIG II KÖNIG VON BAYERN and on the back a floating angel with a laurel wreath in the left hand and the words FOR SCIENCE AND ART . In the copy for the industry, the text is DEM MERDIENSTE . The portrait side of the badge was designed by Johann Adam Ries and bears his signature.

The ribbon is light blue with narrow white borders and wider central stripes. There are blue Bavarian alarm clocks inside .

The Ludwig Medal was awarded a maximum of six times per year.

It is not to be confused with the Ludwig Medal of the Technical University of Munich / TUM.

Well-known award winners

literature

  • Georg Schreiber: The Bavarian orders and decorations. Prestel, Munich 1964.
  • Jörg Nimmergut : Germany catalog medals and decorations. Munich 1977.
  • Werner Bergmann: The royal Bavarians. Ludwig Medal for Science, Art and Industry. An interim report on the awards from 1872–1918. In : Orders and Medals. The magazine for friends of phaleristics, publisher: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ordenskunde , Issue 125, 22nd year, Gäufelden 2020. ISSN 1438-3772.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thieme-Becker: General Lexicon of Visual Artists , Volume 28, p. 340, Leipzig, 1934; (Digital scan)
  2. Ludwig Medal of TUM
  3. "... one of the first to receive the new gold medal for art and science", according to Hyacinth HollandHauschild, Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 50, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1905, pp. 77-81.