Eavesdropper on an Age: Ludwig Meidner in Exile

Hardback

Main Details

Title Eavesdropper on an Age: Ludwig Meidner in Exile
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Erik Riedel
By (author) Shulamith Behr
By (author) Birgit M?ckel
By (author) Birgit Sander
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:240
Dimensions(mm): Height 275,Width 230
Category/GenreArt and design styles - Expressionism
Individual artists and art monographs
ISBN/Barcode 9783777425863
ClassificationsDewey:759.3
Audience
General
Illustrations Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout

Publishing Details

Publisher Hirmer Verlag
Imprint Hirmer Verlag
Publication Date 7 July 2016
Publication Country Germany

Description

Apocalypse, the city, war, religion, the portrait, exile and existential trauma - Ludwig Meidner (1884-1966) is regarded as one of the outstanding artists of German Expressionism. With the accuracy of a seismograph he recorded in his pictorial and literary works the shocks which reverberated through his time. To mark the 50th anniversary of the death of the Jewish artist Ludwig Meidner attention has been focused on the works produced during his period of exile in London between 1939 and 1953 - sketchbooks, watercolours and charcoal and chalk drawings produced under the most difficult conditions. They represent an intense mixture of internal experience and contemporary commentary. With merciless directness and symbolic condensation the works tell of terror, isolation, persecution and destruction as well as a grotesquely absurd world which Meidner spotlighted in an idiosyncratic way, combining mockery with mordant humour and sarcasm with bizarre exaggeration.

Author Biography

The Museum Giersch of the Goethe University Frankfurt is an exhibition hall focusing on the art and cultural history of the Frankfurt and the Rhine-Main area. The Jewish Museum Frankfurt is dedicated to the history and culture of the Jewish communities in Frankfurt from the twelfth to the twenty-first century.