Daniel Ludwig

The works of New York artist Daniel Ludwig are often based on fleeting, shadowy dream images that oscillate between colour, texture and symbolic, often mythological subjects.

Works

Daniel Ludwig: Good Samaritan II, 2016 — Good Samaritan II, 2016, Oil on canvas, 152 × 117 cm

Daniel Ludwig: Woman in the Woods, 2018 — Woman in the Woods, 2018, Oil on canvas, 178 × 127 cm

Daniel Ludwig: Beach Day, 2020 — Beach Day, 2020, Acrylic on hardboard, 85 × 66 cm

Daniel Ludwig: Transformation, 2021 — Transformation, 2021, Oil on canvas, 152 × 152 cm

Daniel Ludwig: Dancer II, 2017 — Dancer II, 2017, Oil on canvas, 117 × 76 cm

Daniel Ludwig: Intimate Conversation II, 2016 — Intimate Conversation II, 2016, Oil on canvas, 178 × 127 cm

Daniel Ludwig: Dreaming Figure, 2021 — Dreaming Figure, 2021, oil on wood, 71 × 127 cm

Daniel Ludwig: Awile ago, 2017 — Awile ago, 2017, Oil on canvas, 61 × 61 cm

Daniel Ludwig: Filament, 2016 — Filament, 2016, Oil on canvas, 152 × 76 cm

Daniel Ludwig: Medusa, 2018 — Medusa, 2018, Acrylic on paper, 38 × 28 cm

Daniel Ludwig: Reclining Figure on a Couch, 2006 — Reclining Figure on a Couch, 2006, Oil on canvas, 91 × 128 cm

Daniel Ludwig: Tempest, 2021 — Tempest, 2021, Oil on canvas, 102 × 102 cm

show more works

Artist portrait

Artist portrait
Daniel Ludwig

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

Oct 2021

From NYC with Love IV
Oct 2018

Group Exhibitions

Private Choice II
Jan 2023

PRIVATE CHOICE
Nov 2022

Art Essences XXIV
Feb 2021

Art Essences XVII
Oct 2017

Art Essences XV
Jan 2017

From NYC with Love Part III
Sep 2016

Feb 2015

Jul 2014

Apr 2014

Kunstessenzen IV
Jan 2013

Fairs

Feb 2019

Nov 2016

Exhibition list

Solo Exhibitions

2021

"FROM NYC WITH LOVE PART VII", Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin, Germany

2018

"Daniel Ludwig: A Retrospective- 35 Years of Work from Kentucky Collections", Wilson Gallery at Georgetown College, Georgetown, KY, USA

2018

"35th ANNIVERSARY YEAR CELEBRATION PART III PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS BY DANIEL LUDWIG", Heike Pickett Gallery, Lexington, KY, USA

2018

"From NYC with Love IV", Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin, Germany

2016

"From NYC With Love Part III", Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin, Germany

Group Exhibitions

2023

"Private Choice", Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin, Germany

2021

"Kunstessenzen XXIV", Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin, Germany

2020

"Blue Grass Trust Antiques", Fine Arts & Garden Show, Lexington, USA

2018

"The Last Picture Show", Heike Pickett Gallery, Versailles, USA

2017

"New Works Invitational 2017", Heike Pickett Gallery, Versailles, USA

Vita

The human figure is usually at the centre of Daniel Ludwig's works. He positions his graceful protagonists like an old master - sometimes as stand-alone figures, sometimes in mythological scenes. His figures are elusive - they dissolve into fluid, abstract forms, creating a dynamic interplay of naturalism and abstraction, of reality and dream - like fragments of memory rising from our subconscious in front of our inner eye. His compositions are influenced by the psychoanalytical work of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, who understood dreams as fragments of what we have experienced and of a collective subconscious.

Ludwig studied in Rome and it was in the Eternal City that he developed his fascination with overlapping layers of history and stories, which play a major role in his complex compositions. His overlapping painting style is reminiscent of superimposed, sometimes torn, posters on an ancient wall: stories on stories.

Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and Berkley, Massachusetts

1959

Born in Denver, US

1981

BA in Fine Arts at Rhode Island School of Design, US

1986

MA in Fine Arts at the University of Cincinnati, US

1986 - 2002

Associate Professor of Art, Salve Regina University

1994

Thornton Wilder Fellowship, MacDowell Colony Residency, Petersborough, US

1999