Ludwig Dill - Artist Info

About Ludwig Dill

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  • Biography

    Wilhelm Franz Karl Ludwig, a landscape painter was the only son of the Grand Ducal Assessors Office, and later a district judge, Ludwig Dill and his wife Rosa Dill, born Dietz. A year after his birth the family moved to Gengenbach, 1856 by Durlach, and finally 1862, to Stuttgart.

    Ludwig Dill in 1872 studied architecture at the Stuttgart Polytechnic, and moved later to the Munich Academy*. From 1874 he was a student of Karl Theodor von Piloty, Carl Raab and Otto Seitz .

    About the latter artist, he wrote: "Prof. Seitz was a naturalist. With his big picture Neptune and the Naiads we saw at the hips and calves, the welts from the petticoats and garters, which have borne the ladies.

    Ludwig Dill was traveling a lot b...

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