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Graphic artist, painter and writer, Ludwig Meidner was born in Bernstadt, Germany and studied in Breslau, Berlin and Paris, initially working as a fashion illustrator. With the rise of anti-Semitism in Berlin, Meidner and his family moved to Cologne in 1935, where he worked as a drawing teacher at a Jewish school. Many of his works were confiscated from museums and he was included in the Entartete Kunst exhibition of 1937. He emigrated to England in August 1939 and was interned from 1940–41 at Huyton Camp, Liverpool and on the Isle of Man. To find out more about his life and career, listen to the podcast below:
@Ludwig Meidner estatePhoto: Bridgeman imagesThis drawing, from the Weimar period, is typical of Meidner’s powerful, graphic, expressionist style.This drawing, from the Weimar period, is typical of Meidner’s powerful, graphic, expressionist style.Provenance
presented by Cyril J. Ross 1950Literature
'Finchleystrasse: German artists in exile in Great Britain and beyond 1933-45' (London: Ben Uri Gallery and Museum in association with the German Embassy London, 2018), p. 38.; Rachel Dickson and Sarah MacDougall, eds., 'Out of Chaos: Ben Uri; 100 Years in London' (London: Ben Uri Gallery, 2015) pp. 64-65.; Walter Schwabe and Julia Weiner, eds., Jewish Artists: the Ben Uri Collection - Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture (London: Ben Uri Art Society in association with Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 1994), p. 79.