Wolfgang Ludwig is an important artist of Op Art, a style created in the 1960s, whose representatives generated surprising optical effects on the viewer by means of precise abstract patterns and geometrical "color figures". Ludwig, who until 1956 studied with Hans Uhlmann and Alexander Camaro at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, lived in Berlin and belonged to the circle of the ZERO movement. Originally focusing on colored phenomena, from 1963 he concentrated on his works he called cinematic disks. He eliminated all colors and reduced his works to black and white. He constructed and painted circular radial systems with even rays in black on a white background or vice versa. With these disc constructions, Ludwig searched for possibilities to "stress" the perception of the viewer, as he put it. Although the structures are purely static, the systems seem to start rotating slowly after looking at them a few seconds. This rotation seems to happen clockwise and swing back in a counter-rotation. An affliction of his hand put a premature end to his creative work. From 1971 he concentrated on his professorship in visual communication at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Berlin. In spite of his comparatively short period of active creative production, Ludwig’s art is internationally acknowledged. His works are represented in retrospective Op Art exhibitions to this day, e.g., in 2007 at the „Optic Nerve“ show at the Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio. [http://dierking.ch/en/fine-art/artists/wofgang-ludwig.html] Wolfgang Ludwig, who lived in Berlin, concentrated as of 1963 on his work group Cinematic Disks – precise equiradial and mostly circular systems in black and white. The artist’s express intention was to “overtax the eye” through the apparently rotating movement of his works. Unfortunately due to an early hand ailment his very small oeuvre came to an abrupt end in the 1970s. [https://www.artsy.net/show/dierking-a-tribute-to-the-responsive-eye] undefined

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