, Oil on board, signed and dated (19)22, 48 x 58 cm, frame: 62 x 72 cm, Provenance: Private property Lucerne. // Ludwig Bock was promoted early by Franz von Defregger. He began his first professional artistic training at the private academy of Heinrich Knirr, later in the artists'; colony Haimhausen with Bernhard Buttersack. In 1906 he was accepted at the Munich Academy of Art. As a master student of the animal painter Heinrich von Zügel, he also took part in his studies in W?rth am Rhein. In 1908 he participated for the first time in the exhibition of the Munich Secession. In the same year he was awarded the bronze medal and in 1909 the silver medal of the Munich Academy of Art. In 1917 he became a member of the Munich Secession. Since 1918, he regularly participated in exhibitions at the Glaspalast Munich and in numerous other German cities. In 1920 a painting by Bock was purchased for the first time by the Bayerische Staatsgem?ldesammlungen. Numerous further purchases followed. In 1927 the Academy awarded him the title of a professor; in 1929 he was honoured with the Rome Prize for the Villa Massimo and the associated scholarship. In 1952 he was awarded the F?rderpreis für Bildende Kunst of the City of Munich.