Ludwig Meidner
German,
(1884–1966)
Ludwig Meidner was a German expressionist painter and printmaker. Meidner is best known for his painted, drawn, and printed portraits and landscapes, but is especially noted for his "apocalyptic" series of work featuring his stylized visions of a pending transformation of Germany before World War I. After the First World War Meidner turned to Orthodox Judaism and began producing more baroque-like religious paintings, including a long and repetitive series of portraits of prophets. He was an habitual self portraitist producing a series of Rembrandt-inspired self-portraits. Meidner increasingly turned to writing—he produced several books of dense expressionist prose and contributed to many newspaper articles.