Ludwig Nick

Ludwig Nick (30 January 1873 – July 1936) was a German sculptor and art professor, who worked in stone, bronze, wood and porcelain.

[1][3] After practising his profession for several years, he started a six-year study at the Königliche akademische Hochschule für die bildenden Künste in Berlin, receiving master classes from Peter Breuer and Ernst Herter.

[5] In 1908, Nick won a one-year travel scholarship from the Paul Schultze-Stiftung,[6] better known as the Rom-Preis (Rome Award) of the Preußische Akademie der Künste.

In 1924 he sculpted the stone lion for the Löwendenkmal [de], the warrior memorial for Leipzig University, a monument designed by August Gaul, who had died before finishing it.

[2][14] Among his Meissen works are Hirte (1929), Rübezahl (1930), Mutter mit Kind (1930) and other figurines, that often came in cheaper white and more expensive colored, sometimes gold decorated versions.

[13] Engelmann's work lacked the Heimat expression and the steel, folk element as they were perceived or wanted in that time, while Nick's figures looked incomparably slimmer and more sinewy, therefor corresponding more to the new ideal.