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German ExpressionismLudwig Meidner |
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born: Bernstadt, Silesia; 18 April 1884
died: Darmstadt, West Germany; 14 May 1966
| 1903 | 19 | Ludwig Meidner studies at the Royal Art School, Breslau. |
| 1912 | 28 | Meidner helps found Die Pathetiker (The Ones Filled with Pathos) with Richard Janthur and Jakob Steinhardt. |
| 1914 | 30 | He makes contact with Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel and Otto Müller. |
| 1915 | 31 | Publishes Yearnings of the Painter in the periodical Die Aktion. Military service for Germany in WW I. |
| 1918 | 34 | Meidner's first individual exhibition takes place at the Paul Cassirer Gallery, Berlin. He also becomes a founding member of the November Group and the Work Council of Art. |
Apocalyptic City |
Apocalyptic Landscape |
The Burning City |
Battle |
Apocalyptic Vision |
Berlin – 5 AM |
Self Portrait |
The Corner House, Villa Kochmann in Dresden |
Grand Café Schönberg |
Street |
Street and Pedestrian |
Street in Wilmersdorf |
| 1923 | 39 | After his service in the war and his personal familiarity with the hideous nature of war he believes that his previous artistic path was a mistake. He returns to the Jewish faith. He disavows his previous work, which he called an intolerable expression of ‘lunacy and indecency.’ However it is the work by which he is remembered. |
| 1924 | 40 | Meidner begins two years of teaching at the School of Painting and Sculpture, Berlin-Charlottenburg |
| 1937 | 53 | Eighty-four of his works are confiscated from German public collections in 1937 by the Nazis. |
| 1964 | 70 | Meidner is awarded the Grand Cross of Merit of the German Federal Republic. |
| 1966 | 72 | Dies in Darmstadt, West Germany In his will 1,600 art works were given to the Juedische Museum in Frankfurt, Germany. |
Most of the pictures, which show no location information, were once a part of the Marvin and Janet Fishmann Collection, Milkaukee, WI, US. The Fishmanns sold much of their collection of German Expressionist Art in October of 2000 at Sotheby's in London. Where these pictures eventually found homes is unknown, some may not have sold in the auction, some may have gone to museums, most probably went into private hands. For more information about Meidner visit: http://www.jewishmuseum.de/meidner.html Ludwig Meidner-Archiv |
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