Ludwig Kasper - Artist Info

About Ludwig Kasper

  • Biography

    Ludwig Kasper was born in Gurten, Austria in 1893. From 1909 to 1912, he studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Afterwards, he worked as soldier. From 1919 to 1915, he continued his studies in Munich. From 1933 to 1943, Kasper mainly worked in the Klosterstraße 75 in Berlin, in a studio community together with Gerhard Marcks, Käthe Kollwitz and Hermann Blumenthal.

    He received several fellowships, amongst others in Greece, and in the Villa Massimo in Rome. From 1943 to 1944, Kasper worked as professor at the Academy of Fine Arts of Braunschweig. In World War II, his apartment and studio were bombed. He therefore moved back to Austria. He died in 194...

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