Ludwig Oswald Wenckebach (Heerlen, 1895 - Noordwijkerhout, 1955) was apprenticed to 1910 by his uncle, the painter Willem Wenckebach, and attended art courses in Haarlem and Vienna. In 1919 he returned to the Netherlands and went to live in Schagen. There he became acquainted with the sculptor John Rädecker, who encouraged him to start sculpting. He initially worked in the classical Greek tradition. From the fifties he developed a more personal, figurative style: a subtle style of styling, but his figures retained a certain rigor. Slowly his free figure plastics got their own character with a sleek, stylized design and a mild, more everyday - sometimes ironic - appearance. Around 1955 Wenckebach was named Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion.