Ludwig von Löfftz

Ludwig von Löfftz (21 June 1845 – 3 December 1910) was a German genre and landscape painter.

Among his students was also Lovis Corinth,[1] and the American Albert Lorey Groll.

A lofty atmosphere pervades his interiors, treated in the spirit of the Flemish masters, while his religious subjects are imbued with deep feeling and solemn grandeur.

Great technical skill and masterly treatment of the chiaroscuro produce the most harmonious effects in all of his paintings.

The impressive "Pietà" (1883) won him the gold medal at the International Exhibition in Munich and is now in the Neue Pinakothek, which also contains Eurydice (1898).