Ludwig Kasper

Ludwig Kasper (° Gurten, May 2, 1893 - † Braunau am Inn, August 28, 1945), is an Austrian sculptor.

Biography

Son of farmer, Kasper receives his sculptor's artistic training, among others to Hallstatt in Tirol, then at Hermann Hahn in Munich and, as beneficiary of scholarships, in Greece and in Rome.

Besides, he worked in Berna in Silesia, in Paris and in Berlin, where his period of creation is the most fertile.

In 1930, he gets married to the artist Ottilie Wolf.

Between 1943 and 1944, he teaches the sculpture to the School of art of Braunschweig; however, he comes back in Austria from bombardments undergone by his native country and where he dies, in 1945, from a disease of loins.

His works were exposed during Documenta 1, the first in a series of renowned documenta exhibitions in Kassel in 1955.

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*This article is altogether outcomming from a translation of the article of Wikipedia in french: "Ludwig Kasper"