Apokalyptische Landschaft Meidner

Apokalyptische landschaft apocalyptic landscape jung.

Apokalyptische landschaft meidner. From cubism to futurism to the russian avant garde the first decade of the 20th century saw a burgeoning artistic creativity seize the european continent al. Works by ludwig meidner at sotheby s. Figure 21 meidner apocalyptic landscape apokalyptische landschaft oil on canvas 80 x 116cm nationalgalerie berlin 1913 figure 22 meidner apocalyptic landscape near the halensee train station apokalyptische landschaft beim bahnhof halensee oil on canvas 81 5 x 97cm los angeles county museum of art 1913. May 9 2015 apocalyptic landscape 1913 ludwig meidner germany lacma los angeles.

Ludwig meidner was apprenticed to a stonemason but his apprenticeship was not completed. Ludwig meidner 18 april 1884 14 may 1966 was a german expressionist painter and printmaker born in bernstadt silesia. Apokalyptische landschaft 1916 ludwig meidner kunst und literatur ludwig. 24 x 27 cm.

Those in the second seem frozen in place but with the possibility of future vitality. Radical art of the great war sotheby s commemoration of the artistic genius borne from the turmoil of world war i. A harrowing and dynamic composition it comes to auction this november as a centerpiece of the beautiful and damned. From the morbid coloration of apokalyptische vision meidner first moved to the icy blues of die abgebrannten and then to the fiery tones of apokalyptische landschaft.

Executed in 1912 on the brink of world war i german expressionist ludwig meidner s double sided painting apokalyptische landschaft is among the last of the visionary artist s apocalyptic landscapes still remaining in private hands. Ecstatic cataclysmic and profoundly affecting meidner s apokalyptische landschaft is one of the most extraordinary paintings of the early twentieth century belonging to a series executed between 1912 and 1916. Meidner is best known for his painted drawn and printed portraits and landscapes. Those in the third painting are in motion desperately fleeing the tumultuous scene behind them.

3791310259 9783791310251 3791310526 9783791310527. The figures in the first work are dead or dying.