Ludwig Dill (1848 - 1940)

Ludwig Dill

Ludwig Dill was a German painter of the last quarter of the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries. He is known as a painter, landscape painter and marinist.

Ludwig Dill at the beginning of his career painted canvases in a realistic style. His work was greatly influenced by his stay in Northern Italy, especially in Chioggia, where his landscapes became more ornamental and closer to Jugendstil. The artist was a co-founder of the Munich Secession movement and president of this organization in the late 19th century. In 1894 he founded the art school "New Dachau" and became a prominent representative of the Dachau art colony. From 1899 to 1919 Dill taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe. Streets were named in his honor in Dachau and Karlsruhe.