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Jakob Stroup

Lead: Ludwig Meidner (18 April 1884 – 14 May 1966) was a German expressionist painter, printmaker and writer. Meidner's is best known for his portraits and landscapes.

...the apocalyptic landscapes. Ludwig also during the time in creating these pieces founded the German expressionist group, Die Pathertiker with Jacob Steirnhardt and Richard Janthur. Their focus was on the use of pathos in art to get an emotional response, which can be seen in the apocalyptic landscapes. However his art group disbanded after their first art show in 1912.

During WWI Ludwig served in the German military as a French interpreter and a infantry soldier.

After the First World War...

Painting

Ludwig Meidner created numerous portraits throughout his life as a painter. His portraits are known to be distorted with flowing movements that create unusual perspectives in the paintings. This form of distortion and his unrefined brushstrokes helps create a emotional sense of depression and anxiety in his portraits, which in turn detoured many from getting portraits done by Ludwig. Yet multiple expressionist writers such as Johannes R Becher and Max Herrmann-Neisse got painted portraits done by Meidner. Other then portraits Ludwig also created multiple landscapes of Berlin, which are frequently known as apocalyptic from the style of the pieces. However only a single painting is directly connected the idea of apocalypse through the title. While some people believe they predict the oncoming of WWI, others see it as presenting the movement and chaos of the urban world.

Printmaking Ludwig mostly worked with hard ground etchings, lithographs, and drypoint when it came to his work with printmaking. He made many portraits such as a lithograph Theodor Dauber and an etching of Johannes Becher. He also created an eight piece collection of lithographs known as "Krieg". The different prints shows scenes of battle, death, bombs, guns, and overall destruction. They were made near the start of WWI to protest the war and show the horroriffic outcome of war. These prints showed Ludwig's far left political views on the war.

Writing

Along with being a visual artist. Meidner was also a writer and poet. While he mostly wrote poems, he also wrote a short story and three books:"Gang in die Stile" 1929," Septemberschei" 1920, and "Im Nacken das Sternemeer" 1918. Meidner did a large majority of his poetry while he was in WWI, since he did not have much time to paint or make prints. His writing had a darker tone and eerie stories, which were from his point of view on the world. However, Meidner's writing never grew much in popularity as much as his art with the expressionist.