Personal Life
On 27 December 1954 Ludwig married Christel Sprengel, and in 1955 his son Michael was born. His wife left him in 1959 and moved with their son to Piding, Bavaria. Some first concerns over his psychological condition were expressed by his wife in a letter to Swiss art historian Werner Mueller, in which she reported that Ludwig seemed to be occasionally confused and emotionally absent. On 31 July 1968 he was admitted to the mental hospital Gabersee in close proximity to Wasserburg, Inn. His son Michael committed suicide at the age of thirteen. Then on 22 January 1970 Friedrich Ludwig himself died in the hospital at Gabersee, and was buried in Piding beside his son.
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