Ludwig Bock

* 1886, München 1971, München

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* 1886, München, 1971, München

Ludwig Bock's early patrons included the artist Franz von Defregger. Bock, a painter of landscapes, flowers, still life, and the nude, began his artistic education at the private academy of Heinrich Knirr in Munich. Under the instruction of Bernhard Buttersack he developed his work as a landscape painter in Haimhausen, close to Dachau, in Bavaria. In 1906 he was accepted by the Academy in Munich. His first exhibition took place in 1908 as part of the Secession, and was followed by many others. In the following years he exhibited in the galleries of Heinrich Thannhauser, Josef Brakl and Heinemann. In 1908 and 1909 he was awarded the bronze and the silver medals by the Munich Academy. During a trip to Paris in 1913 he studied the French Modernists, who exerted an enduring influence on his work. His style changed, developing into a form of painting that was expressive and based on sharp contours and vivid colors. In 1917 he became a member of the Secession and, in 1927, was awarded the title of Professor. In 1929, Ludwig Bock was awarded the Rome Prize for the Villa Massimo and in 1952 the Art Prize of the City of Munich.

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Breuer, Peter: Münchner Künstlerköpfe, München o. J. Ludwig, Horst: Ludwig Bock und Adolf Büger, in: Weltkunst 13, 1992, S. 1801-1803 Rauch, Alexander: s.v. „Bock, Ludwig (August Otto)“, in: Bruckmanns Lexikon der Münchner Kunst. Münchner Maler im 19./20. Jahrhundert (Geburtsjahrgänge 1871-1900), bearbeitet von Ludwig, Horst: Bd. 5: Achmann-Kursell, München 1993, S. 95-97 Vollmer, Hans: s.v. „Bock, Ludwig“, in: Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler des XX. Jahrhunderts, hrsg. von Hans Vollmer, Bd. 1: A-D, Leipzig 1953, Reprint München 1992, S. 242 Wolf, G. J.: „Zu den Bildern von Ludwig Bock“, in: Die Kunst, Bd. 61, 1929/30, S. 164ff.