Ludwig Meidner (1884-1966)
Aliases: Ludwig Baruch Meidner
Professions: Painter; Lithographer; Etcher
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A portrait of a young man
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- Ludwig Meidner , 1884-1966 LANDSCHAFT MIT BIRKE (LANDSCAPE WITH BIRCH TREE) oil on canvas
Ludwig Meidner Biography
(b Bernstadt, Prussia [now Germany], 18 April 1884; d Darmstadt, 14 May 1966). German painter, draughtsman, graphic artist, writer and teacher. He was born into a middle-class Jewish family during the late Wilhelmine period, and his parents wanted him to pursue a profession more practical than an artistic one. Nonetheless, while apprenticed to a bricklayer in 1901, Meidner produced highly accomplished pen-and-ink drawings. Their imagery reveals his attempts to align his Jewish heritage with that of modern-day Christianity and Socialism, an intellectual preoccupation that was to remain consistent throughout his career (e.g. Ibn Esra , 1901; Darmstadt, Stadtmus. & Städt. Kstsamml.). In 1903 he studied at the Königliche Akademie in Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland) and in 1905 moved to Berlin where, to earn a living, he designed advertisements for furriers. A stipend from an aunt enabled him to visit Paris between 1905 and 1907. There he met Modigliani, briefly attended the Académie Julian and Académie Cormon and generally broadened his experience of city life. Nonetheless, his correspondence at that time reveals his preference for Berlin, the struggling, earnest burgeoning city...the worlds intellectual and moral capital (letter to Franz Landsberger, 3 Jan 1907; see 1991 exh.cat., ii, p.16).
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