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"title": "Ludwig Meidner",
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"title": "The German Tradition",
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"title": "Graphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper",
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"description": "[Karl & Faber, Munich, 19-20 Oct. 1965, p. 188, no. 1572]; [Galerie Stangl, Munich (letter from Isolde Neumann of Karl & Faber in departmental file)]; D. Thomas Bergen, NY and London (exhibition catalog of his collection); [Christie's, London, 2 Dec. 1980, p. 23, no. 220 (photocopy in deparmental file)]; [Margo Schab Inc., New York]",
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"description": "Ludwig Meidner was not formally associated with an Expressionist group, but this scene of explosive light above a deserted street encapsulates the urban anxiety conveyed in the work of many of his contemporaries. The striking patterns of black and white drawn in ink are reminiscent of the cut surfaces of a woodcut. The back (verso) of the drawing features a lively portrait of a young woman. The artist once advised that in making a portrait one should \u201cdig like a mole down into the mysterious deep of the pupils and into the white of the eye and don\u2019t let your pen stop until the soul of that one opposite you is welded to yours in a covenant of pathos.\u201d",
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"citation": "Glaubinger, Jane. \u201cA Double-Sided Drawing by Ludwig Meidner.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 69, no. 9 (November 1982): 297\u2013307.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 297-298, fig. 1",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cYear in Review for 1982.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 70, no. 1 (January 1983): 3\u201355.",
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