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.