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 (aged 77 years 9 months 10 days) 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