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1884-1966
APOKALYPTISCHE VISION (APOCALYPTIC VISION)

54.7 by 43.6cm., 21 1/2 by 17 1/4 in.

Executed in December 1913.

signed L Meidner and dated Dezember 1913 (upper left)

pen and brush and ink with white gouache on paper

PROVENANCE

Sale: Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 10th June 1983, lot 964
Marvin & Janet Fishman, Milwaukee
Sale: Sotheby's London, The Marvin & Janet Fishman Collection, 18th October 2000, lot 47
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

EXHIBITED

Minneapolis, University Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Berlin: Art and Metropolis -- Works on Paper 1912-1932, 1987
Los Angeles, County Museum of Art & Berlin, Berlinische Galerie, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Photographie und Architektur im Martin-Gropius-bau, The Apocalyptic Landscapes of Ludwig Meidner, 1989-90, no. 18, illustrated in the catalogue
Milwaukee, Art Museum; Berlin, Berlinische Galerie, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Photographie und Architektur; Frankfurt-am-Main, Schirn Kunsthalle; Emden, Kunsthalle, Stiftung Henir Nannen; New York, The Jewish Museum; Omaha, Nebraska, Joslyn Art Museum and Atlanta, The High Museum, The Marvin and Janet Fishman Collection: Art in Germany 1909-1936, From Expressionism to Resistance, 1990-92, no. 108
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Figures du Moderne: l'Expressionnisme en Allemagne de 1905 à 1914, Dresde, Munich, Berlin, 1992-1993, no. 387, illustrated in the catalogue
The Hague, Museum Paleis Lange Voorhout; Stockholm, Lijevalchs Konsthall; Helsinki, Helsingin Taidehalli & Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Art et Résistance, Les peintres allemandes de l'entre-deux-guerres -- La Collection Marvin et Janet Fishman, 1995-96, no. 109
Venice, Palazzo Grassi, Expressionismo Tedesco: Arte e Società, 1997-98, no. 402
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Die Nacht, 1998-1999, no. 335, illustrated in the catalogue