id:			150715
accession number:	1982.14.a
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1982.14.a
updated:		2023-09-30 11:10:49.864000

Figure in the Street at Night (recto), 1913. Ludwig Meidner (German, 1884–1966). Pen and black ink and brush and black ink over black chalk; sheet: 50.8 x 80.6 cm (20 x 31 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1982.14.a

title:				Figure in the Street at Night (recto)
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creation date:			1913
creation date earliest:		1913
creation date latest:		1913
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creditline:			Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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culture:	Germany, 20th century
technique:	pen and black ink and brush and black ink over black chalk
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - German
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Ludwig Meidner (German, 1884–1966)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 50.8 x 80.6 cm (20 x 31 3/4 in.)
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	description:	cream(2) wove paper discolored to yellow-cream
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	by artist, lower center, in black chalk: Dr. Fleisch  passage  Nr. 4  250/h
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Ludwig Meidner
	opening date:   1991-09-15T04:00:00
	<i>Ludwig Meidner</i>. Mathildenhohe Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany (organizer) (September 15-December 1, 1991).

	title:		Graphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper
	opening date:   2018-01-14T05:00:00
	<i>Graphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 14-May 27, 2018).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	D. Thomas Bergen, NY and London
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	[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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wall 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 “dig like a mole down into the mysterious deep of the pupils and into the white of the eye and don’t let your pen stop until the soul of that one opposite you is welded to yours in a covenant of pathos.”
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Images of the Mind.</em> Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1987.
	page number: 	Reproduced: [p. 30]
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