Ludwig Enders

Biography

Posters, trademarks, packaging, illustrations. Born 14 March 1889 in Offenbach a.M. Studied at the Darmstadt Kunstgewerbeschule: a teacher was Friedrich Wilhelm Kleukens, and at the Munich Kunstakademie. c1913-20: book illustrator. 1920-45: at the Offenbach a.M. Kunstgewerbeschule, where he taught commercial art, fashion drawing and, later, bookbinding. Died 1956.

Writings by

  • essay in Dekorative Kunst, 1919, p. 189.

Writings about

  • H.K. Frenzel, ‘German posters of 1927’, Gg, v. 2, 1928, pp. 31-59
  • H.K. Frenzel, ‘Advertising in Germany in 1930’, Modern Publicity, 1930, pp. 102-9, 109
  • Theodor Schwisow, ‘Ludwig Enders’, Gg, Aug. 1932, pp. 27-39
  • Gg, March 1936, p. 51 (poster for pottery exh.)
  • ‘Die Offenbacher Kunstgewerbeschule stelle aus’ (Frankfurt exh.), Deutscher Drucker, Feb. 1939, pp. 230-31
  • Richard Braungart, ‘Ludwig Enders’ (obituary), EuG, 1957, p. 4
  • GC, 2000
  • AKL, 2002.

Collections

  • Klingspor Museum, Frankfurt a.M.