Lude Döring opened his first studio in 1958 in the former city hall in Sillenbuch near Stuttgart. In 1962 he moved with his wife Gretel (née Pannwitz) and their daughter to a farmhouse in Gutenberg on the Swabian Alps. He chose dedicating his life to the arts. He accepted less and less graphic jobs. During this time he developed the first formative contacts to long term collector and entrepreneur Eugen Eisenmann and others such as Kurt Deschler.

Main topic of his work is the human being. Heads, hands, everyday and sports scenes characterize his work. From the beginning he worked figuratively, opposed the then prevailing zeitgeist, which considered only abstract works as art while the figurative was regarded as "old-fashioned and outdated". He has remained faithful to this approach, but he also developed graphical aspects within his figurative work with his 100-field paintings.

As an autodidact, he has gone his own way. He can be difficult to classify in familiar styles, while approaching some, but always remains independent. His works are today represented in the Museum Gunzenhauser Chemitz, Museum Würth Künzelsau, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and the Städtische Galerie Bietigheim.