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Ludwig Meidner
Prayer1918

Not on view
Vertical lithograph with bold black lines depicting a large, contorted nude figure surrounded by swirling cloud-like forms, with diagonal rays in the upper right

Ludwig Meidner, Prayer, 1918, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by Anna Bing Arnold, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, and deaccession funds, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Ludwig Meidner
Title
Prayer
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1918
Medium
Lithograph on Japan paper
Dimensions
Image: 9 1/16 x 7 1/4 in. (23.02 x 18.42 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by Anna Bing Arnold, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, and deaccession funds
Accession Number
83.1.1122a
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
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.

  • Reed, Orrel P., German expressionist art: the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection: prints, drawings, illustrated books, periodicals, posters. Exhibition Catalogue. Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1977.
Copyright
© Ludwig Meidner-Archiv, Jüdisches Museum der Stadt Frankfurt am Main

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