Ludwig Burgel, oil, Winter Landscape with Cabin,

in the mountains, luminous style, on canvas, image area 26" X 20", in fancy gold frame, well lsited artist.Sunday, 19 December 2010Ludwig BürgelLudwig (Pollak) Bürgel(1901-1980)Austrian naturalistic grafic artist and painter. As a young man he worked in the art printing firm Äust in Vienna and learned the skills and technical details of the world of grafics. In the evenings he followed lessons at the Vienna Art school (Akademie der Bildende Künste) and aged 21 he started his professional career taking on his mother maiden name Bürgel. In his life time he was a popular and loved naturalistic artist famous in and around Vienna and Linz were art dealers promoted and sold his work. To day his work hangs in many Austrian family houses and he is represented in all major Museums in Austria. More recently his art is again appriciated and in demand.Besides etching and printing Ludwig Bürgler was a gifted painter in oils.