Peter Ludwigs, Still Life with Fruit and Flowers, 1925-35, Oil on Canvas, Framed

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Peter Ludwigs

1888 Aachen – 1943 Düsseldorf

Still Life with a Lavish Bouquet of Flowers, Pumpkin, Fruit, and Pitcher

Signed … Read more Peter Ludwigs

1888 Aachen – 1943 Düsseldorf

Still Life with a Lavish Bouquet of Flowers, Pumpkin, Fruit, and Pitcher

Signed lower left
Oil on canvas, framed
Size: 90 x 65.4 cm (without frame) / 105.5 x 80.5 cm (with frame)

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Peter Ludwigs

Painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor.

1906–12 Studied sculpture at the art academies in Aachen, Liège, Brussels, and Düsseldorf
Resident in Düsseldorf from 1911
After the First World War, he was in the circle of “Mother Ey” and had contact with numerous modern artists; Active exhibition record

1929 Trip to the South of France

from 1933, Ludwigs was dependent on welfare

1937 Imprisonment for alleged “preparation for high treason”

from 1942, increasingly active in political resistance
In February 1943, re-arrested and died during his imprisonment

Memberships
from 1922 KPD (Communist Party of Germany)
“Activist League”
“Young Rhineland”
“Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists of Germany” (ASSO)

Exhibitions:

Participation in various group exhibitions at Johanna Ey's gallery
Participation in the first proletarian exhibition “The Struggle” (Düsseldorf)
Participation in the “First General Art Exhibition” in Moscow
In the 1920s, participation in the “Great Art Exhibitions” (Düsseldorf)

September 1946, together with Julo Levin and Franz Monjau, Peter Ludwigs was honored with an exhibition of the “Cultural Association for the "Democratic Renewal of Germany" (Düsseldorf) 1946 "Living Heritage" (Hetjens Museum, Düsseldorf)
1953 "25 Years of the Rhenish Secession" (Kunstverein Düsseldorf)
1984 "Johanna Ey and Her Circle of Artists" (Galerie Remmert und Barth, Düsseldorf)
1985 "In the Beginning: The Young Rhineland" (Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf)
1987 "Düsseldorf Art Scene 1933-1945" (Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf)
1988 "The Young Rhineland: An Idea of ​​Peace" (Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf)

Collections:

Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf
Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf See less