Ludwig Angerer

Ludwig Angerer was a native of Austria. He studied and lived, however, in München, where he ran a painting and drawing school. He was a church painter and muralist, an illustrator, and a graphic designer. He also created portraits, sporting scenes, and posters for sporting events.

Angerer created the honorary certificate of the DSBfA (Deutscher Sportbund für Athletik), for which he also designed six Olympic postcards, which helped to finance the preparation of German track and field athletes for the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games. Angerer’s last known location was München (deregistration of residence) in 1949, but nothing is known of his life from that year.

It is unclear which drawings of a total of eight from 1931 Angerer submitted to the Olympic art competition. One drawing is documented by the illustration in the catalog and belongs to a series of at least seven illustrating a story by writer and football referee Carl Koppehel (1891–1975) in Velhagen und Klasing’s Monatshefte of 1930/31. A total of six ice hockey drawings illustrated an article by winter sports enthusiast Kurt Seeger about the “Siegeszug des kanadischen Eishockeys” (“Triumph of Canadian ice hockey”) from 1934.