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Ludwig Meidner
The Prophet Micha1920

Not on view
Charcoal or chalk drawing, bust-length portrait of a man with heavy crosshatching and gestural strokes, raised hand near chin, dated 1920

Ludwig Meidner, The Prophet Micha, 1920, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Ludwig Meidner
Title
The Prophet Micha
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1920
Medium
Black crayon on heavy wove paper
Dimensions
28 11/16 x 18 15/16 in. (72.87 x 48.1 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.287.87
Classification
Drawings
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Provenance
D. Thomas Bergen (1930-2009); [Christie's, London]; purchased 2 December 1980 (lot 267) by Robert Gore Rifkind (1928-2019), Beverly Hills; given in 1982 to LACMA.
Selected Bibliography

  • Davis, Bruce. German Expressionist Prints and Drawings: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989; Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1989.

Copyright
© Ludwig Meidner-Archiv, Jüdisches Museum der Stadt Frankfurt am Main