Ludwig meidner

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Ludwig Meidner, 1913

Executed a year before the outbreak of war, the painting shows Villa Kochmann, on the corner of the Residenzstrasse and Alemannenallee in Dresden, which still stands. The deconstructed building, captured in the middle of the night using a palette of black, grey and bluish tones, is considered by some authors to be a portrait of the house’s owner, Franz Kochmann, who had made a fortune from a liquor store in Kattowitz and owned a lithographic workshop in Dresden. This hypothesis would explain…

Ludwig Meidner

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After burrowing a book entitled 'Expressionist Painter's' I came across this painting. The self-portrait was painted in 1913. It was painted by candle light which may explain the fertile colours and flickering texture. When I first saw this self-portrait I was both impressed and taken-back. The colours are very intimate, the red neck fracturing the warm-yellow face and cold-green body. The paint has been constructed in thick angular brush strokes, rendering a movement in the surface as if…