Strassenszene. 1913.
Chalks- and pencil drawing on firm paper.
Lower right isgned and dated. Verso inscribed with the number "75" . 56.4 x 46 cm (22.2 x 18.1 in), size of sheet.
Reverse with a partly blackened ink pen drawing, scene at a table [AR].
• Ecstatic drawing from the "Apocalyptic Landscapes" series.
• Meidner uses distorted geometric elements, broken perspectives and plunging lines to bring the pulsating city and its hectic pace to life.
• He visually anticipates what he would write down a year later in his programmatic text "Anleitung zum Malen von Großstadt-Bildern" (Instructions for painting big city pictures).
• Exhibited in the artist's major show at Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt in 1991.

PROVENANCE: Privately owned.
Galerie Michael Hasenclever, Munich.
Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich.
Deutsche Bank Collection (acquired from the above in 1995).

EXHIBITION: Ludwig Meidner, Zeichner. Maler. Literat. 1884-1966, Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, September 15 - December 1, 1991 (illu. vol. II, p. 94).

LITERATURE: Villa Grisebach, auction no. 32, 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, Berlin, June 5, 1993, lot 324 (fig.).

"A street does not consist of tonal values, but is a bombardment of hissing rows of windows, whizzing cones of light between carriages of all kinds and a thousand bouncing balls, scraps of people, advertising signs and roaring, shapeless masses of color."
Ludwig Meidner, Anleitung zum Malen von Großstadt-Bildern, 1914.