Talk:Ludwig Mestler

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Ludwig mestler was a signifigant watercolorist in Vienna Austria before the Nazi invasion. His work hangs in the Hirshorn Gallery (the Smithsonian) and the National Gallery both in Washington D.C. While he does not have the signifigance of someone like Matisse, he matters. And his memory, like some many people uprooted and destroyed by the Nazi, needs to be kept. So little historical data is available about him that is there is almost all there is. I've added some and over the course of the next few weeks will add more.

I just want to add a couple of quotes from Ludwig Mestler's journal's dated 1954 through 1958. Ben Kozlovsky Sr.

Great Pleasure: “Matisse has great maturity, and the temper of the eternal pupil, he is always willing to learn anyhow, anywhere, and from anyone.” Leo Stein, Appreciation: Painting, Poetry and Prose.

This sentence gives me great pleasure. To think that this was the attitude of one of the finest artist since the French Impressionist! I like it because it is my own attitude, only that I am no Matisse. Ludwig Mestler 17. X. 1957

Complicated Life: We have allowed our life to become exceedingly complicated. But even now it is still possible to find, here and there an individual that loves simplicity and tries, whenever he can to eliminate or reduce complicated and replace it with simple. This task in itself is complicated, or should I say, complex, and yet again simple, because it means as often to avoid things, or methods, as to use other things or other methods. Ludwig Mestler 15. IX. 1957