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Ludwig Meidner
Self-Portrait1916

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Head-only portrait drawing in bold black ink on cream paper, man's face angled slightly left, with heavy hatching and expressive line work, signed and dated 1916

Ludwig Meidner, Self-Portrait, 1916, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Ludwig Meidner
Germany, also active England and France, 1884-1966
Title
Self-Portrait
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1916
Medium
Black ink and graphite on paper
Dimensions
unspecified: 23 3/16 x 18 1/16 in. (58.9 x 45.88 cm) Frame: 41 × 31 in. (104.14 × 78.74 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.347
Classification
Drawings
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Provenance
The artist (1884-1966). [Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich]; purchased 27 May 1975 (lot 1330) 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.

  • Chipp, Herschel B. and Karin Breuer. The Human Image in German Expressionist Graphic Art From the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation. Berkeley: University Art Museum, Berkeley, 1981.
  • Grochowiak, Thomas. Ludwig Meidner. [Werke Hrsg.] Thomas Grochowiak. Recklinghausen: Verlag Aurel Bongers, 1966.
  • Benson, Timothy O. Hans Richter: Encounters. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2013.
Copyright
© Ludwig Meidner-Archiv, Jüdisches Museum der Stadt Frankfurt am Main

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