Ludwig von Herterich

{{short description|German painter}}

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{{Infobox artist

| name = Ludwig von Herterich

| image = Ludwig Herterich Johanna Stegen.jpg

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| caption = Ludwig Herterich: Johanna Stegen, the Heroine of Lüneburg (scene from the Napoleonic Wars), 1887

| birth_name = Ludwig Herterich

| birth_date = {{birth-date|1856}}

| birth_place = Etzenhausen, Dachau, Kingdom of Bavaria

| death_date = {{death year and age|1932|1856}}

| death_place = New York City, U.S.

| nationality = German

| known_for = History painting, portraits, art education

| training =

| movement = Munich School

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| patrons =

| awards = Order of Maximilian, 1908

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Ludwig von HerterichKnown as Ludwig Herterich until 1908. (13 October 1856, Ansbach - 25 December 1932, Etzenhausen, today in Dachau) was a German painter and art teacher. He is best known as a painter of portraits and history paintings and is a representative of the Munich School.

Biography

He was the son of a sculptor and art restorer, Franz Herterich, and the younger brother of painter Johann Caspar Herterich. He taught at the Kunstschule Stuttgart and then from 1898 as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. His pupils included Karl Caspar, Maria Caspar-Filser, {{ill|Leo Delitz|de}}, Adolf Erbslöh, David Karfunkle, Käthe Kollwitz, Hermann Mühlen (1886-1964), {{ill|Walter Püttner|de}}, Julius Seyler, Maria Slavona, and Anton Zilzer. For his services to art, he was awarded the Order of Maximilian in 1908 and made a life peer.

Herterich was heavily involved along with others in producing the pictorial art for Schloss Wolfsbrunn in the Ore Mountains.[http://www.ahgz.de/regional-und-lokal/fuenf-dehoga-sterne-fuer-schloss-wolfsbrunn,110123377.html Five DeHoGA-stars; several details of the Schloss Wolfsbrunn hotel, as at 2001]; accessed 1 June 2012

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