Ludwig Wieden

Biographical information

RolesCompeted in Olympic Games
SexMale
Full nameLudwig•Wieden
Used nameLudwig•Wieden
Born10 November 1869 in Květná, Pardubický kraj (CZE)
Died20 August 1947 in Gmunden, Oberösterreich (AUT)
NOC Austria

Biography

Austrian painter Ludwig Wieden studied in Wien (Vienna) at the Graphische Lehr- und. Versuchsanstalt (Institution for Graphic Education and Research), at the Academy under Rudolf Eisenmenger and later in München with Franz Herterich (1877-1966), and became an open-air painter in Hungary. In 1905 Wieden joined the Jungbund, directed by Otto Barth (1876-1916), and later the Vienna Secession. During World War I, he was mainly active as a war painter, but he later became a renowned painter of portraits, landscape and still lifes. Wieden was also a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus.

Results

Games Discipline (Sport) / Event NOC / Team Pos Medal As
1928 Summer Olympics Art Competitions AUT Ludwig Wieden
Painting, Paintings, Open (Olympic) AC