Sale: 533 / Modern Art Day Sale and Gerlinger Collection, Dec. 10. 2022 in Munich Lot 455

 

455
Ludwig Meidner
Apokalyptische Landschaft (Landschaft mit Häusern und spitzen Hügeln), 1912.
Pencil drawing
Estimate:
€ 9,000 / $ 9,720
Sold:
€ 11,250 / $ 12,150

(incl. surcharge)
Apokalyptische Landschaft (Landschaft mit Häusern und spitzen Hügeln). 1912.
Pencil drawing.
Bottom center signed and dated. With the estate stamp and the registration number "II/79" on the reverse. On wove paper. 33 x 46 cm (12.9 x 18.1 in), size of sheet.

• The drawing testifies to the influence the pioneering 1912 Futurist exhibition at Herward Walden's gallery "Der Sturm" 1912 had on Ludwig Meidner.
• The same year Ludwig Meidner painted his first "Apokalyptische Landschaft".
• Paintings with the same title are in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and the Nationalgalerie Berlin
.

We are grateful to Mr Erik Riedel, Ludwig Meidner-Archive at the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt am Main, for his kind expert advice.

PROVENANCE: Artist's estate (until 1988), with the title "Landschaft mit Häusern und spitzen Hügeln".
Private collection Europe.

Ludwig Meidner is a master of the apocalypse. Long before the devastations of the First World War, he had already seen the world in flames and depicted it so graphically that one can hardly believe the early date of creation. The graphic power with which he depicts the human will to destroy has an almost suggestive effect on the viewer. Meidner saw the world falling apart at its seams and thus caught the spirit of his time. His graphic work is characterized by an intensity that truly makes him a visionary. [EH]



455
Ludwig Meidner
Apokalyptische Landschaft (Landschaft mit Häusern und spitzen Hügeln), 1912.
Pencil drawing
Estimate:
€ 9,000 / $ 9,720
Sold:
€ 11,250 / $ 12,150

(incl. surcharge)