Ludwig Dill

Wilhelm Franz Karl Ludwig Dill (2 February 1848, Gernsbach - 24 October 1940, Karlsruhe) was a German ship and landscape painter who was a founding member of the Munich Secession.

He did a great deal of travelling and the area around Venice (especially Chioggia) became one of his favorites for plein air painting.

The impressionistic nature of the land and seascapes eventually led him to a sort of ornamental stylization, approaching Art Nouveau.

Of particular importance to his career was his friendship with Adolf Hölzel, who ran an art school in Dachau, the site of an artists' colony.

[3] In 1899, he accepted a teaching position at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe, and remained there until 1919, spending his summers in Dachau.