Ludwig Blume-Siebert
German, 1853-1929
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Ludwig Blume-Siebert was a German genre painter and illustrator.
He was the son of a lifeguard from Arolsen. Wilhelm von Kaulbach recognized young Ludwig's talent and in 1870 enabled him to study at the Nuremberg School of Applied Arts, which his son-in-law August von Kreling directed. Ludwig Blume-Siebert then studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1871, especially with Julius Roeting, and after the fire in 1872 he switched to the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, where he discovered genre painting with Franz Defregger from 1873. From 1874 to 1879 he lived in New York .
Especially in the last two decades of the 19th century, Ludwig Blume-Siebert was represented with illustrations in the family magazine Die Gartenlaube and the illustrated Leipziger Volkszeitung. In the 1890s he occasionally stayed in the Willingshausen painters colony. In 1906 he visited the Dutch province of Zeeland.
He showed his work at exhibitions in Munich, Bremen and Dresden.