{{short description|German visual artist (1927–2010)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Ludwig Wilding | image = Werk von Ludwig Wilding mit spiegelnden Betrachter.jpg | birth_date = 19 May 1927 | birth_place = Grünstadt, Germany | death_date = 4 January 2010 | education = University of Mainz,<br /> State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart | occupation = Visual artist | known_for = Painting | movement = Op art, kinetic art }} '''Ludwig Wilding''' (19 May 1927 – 4 January 2010) was a German visual artist, whose work is associated with Op art and Kinetic art. Wilding lived in Düsseldorf, and Westheim, Germany.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2008-01-14 |title=Q&A With Ludwig Wilding: Spectacular Spatial Art |url=http://www.chicagoarts-lifestyle.com/qa-with-ludwig-wilding-spectacular-spatial-art/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712222338/http://www.chicagoarts-lifestyle.com/qa-with-ludwig-wilding-spectacular-spatial-art/ |archive-date=2018-07-12 |access-date=2009-05-05 |website=ArtStyle Blog}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aopPAAAAMAAJ&q=Ludwig+Wilding+1927 |title=Triennale India, Issue 2 |date=1971 |publisher=Lalit Kala Akademi |pages=66 |language=en}}</ref>
== Biography == Wilding was born in Grünstadt, Germany.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Houston |first=Joe |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JzjrAAAAMAAJ |title=Optic Nerve: Perceptual Art of the 1960s |date=2007 |publisher=Merrell |isbn=978-1-85894-389-3 |pages=188 |language=en}}</ref> He studied at the University of Mainz Art School, from 1949 to 1950; and at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, from 1952 to 1954, under Willi Baumeister.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Gassen |first=Richard W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vWxIAQAAIAAJ |title=Kunst im Aufbruch: Abstraktion zwischen 1945 und 1959 |date=1998 |publisher=Verlag Gerd Hatje |isbn=978-3-7757-0802-9 |pages=319 |language=de}}</ref>
Wilding's works are three-dimensional structures that create shifting patterns through their black and white designs. He has shown at the Museum Leverkusen (1953); Zimmergallery (1958), Frankfurt; and Studio F (1965), Ulm. His work was included in ''The Responsive Eye'' (created vy curator William C. Settz at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, 1965), ''Eyes, Lies, and Illusions'' (Hayward Gallery, London, 2004) and ''Optic Nerve: Perceptual Art of the 1960s'' (The Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, 2007).
A retrospective of his work was held in 2007 at the Museum of Concrete Art in Ingolstadt.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wade |first1=Nicholas J. |title=The Stereoscopic Art of Ludwig Wilding |journal=Perception |date=2007 |volume=36 |issue=4 |pages=479–482 |doi=10.1068/p3604ed |doi-access=free |pmid=17564194 }}</ref>
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== External links == * [http://www.galerie-la-ligne.ch/--welcome/artists/wilding-ludwig.html Galerie La Ligne, Zürich - biography and information about his stereoscopic art]
== Further reading == * ''The Responsive Eye''. William C. Seitz, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1965. * ''Ludwig Wilding. Retrospektive 1949-1987'' Kaiserslautern: Pfalzgalerie des Bezirksverbands Pfalz, 1987. * ''Ludwig Wilding. Una traiettoria cinetica''. Getulio Alviani, Milano: Edizioni Arte Struktura, 2004. * ''Ludwig Wilding. Visuelle Phanomen''. Wienand Verlag Edizioni, 2007. * ''Ludwig Wilding. kunst= traum = illusion = tauschung''. Hamburg: Galerie Renate Kammer, 2012. * ''Ludwig Wilding. Kinetische und Programmierte Kunst: 1967/2008''. Milano: Galleria Dep Art Edizioni, 2013..
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