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Ludwig Meidner

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"The people on the streets draw up and stare,

While overhead huge portents cross the sky;

Round fanglike towers threatening comets flare,

Death-bearing, fiery snouted where they fly."

George Heym "Umbra Vitae"


Apocalyptic Landscape, 1912 Apokalyptische Landschaft (Apocalyptic Landscape), 1912, oil on canvas, 94 x 109 cm, Private collection.	Apocalyptic Vision, 1912, Apokalyptische Vision (Apocalyptic Vision), 1912, oil on canvas, 72.5 x 88.5 cm, Leicestershire Museums and Art Galleries, Leicester	Apocalyptic Landscape, 1912 Apokalyptische Landschaft (Apocalyptic Landscape), 1912, oil on canvas,	Apocalyptic Landscape, 1913 Apokalyptische Landschaft (Apocalyptic Landscape), c. 1913, oil on canvas, 80 x 116 cm, Nationalgalerie, Staetliche Museum Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin (reverse of Revolution)

Apocalyptic Landscape (Nr. Halensee Railway Station), 1913 Apokalyptische Landschaft (Beim Bahnhof Halensee) (Apocalyptic Landscape [near the Halansee Railway Station]), 1913, oil on canvas, 81.5 x 97 cm, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of Clifford Odets	Apocalyptic Landscape, 1916 Apokalyptische Landschaft (Apocalyptic Landscape), 1916, oil on canvas, 80 x 100 cm, Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg	Apocalyptic Landscape (Spree Docks, Berlin) 1913 Apokalyptische Landschaft (Spreehafen Berlin) (Apocalyptic Landscape [Spree Docks in Berlin]), 1913, oil on canvas, 81 x 116 cm, Saarland-Museum, Saarbrucken	Apocalyptic Landscape, 1912/13 Apokalyptische Landschaft (Apocalyptic Landscape), 1912/1913, oil on canvas, 67 x 78.5 cm, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

Apocalyptic Landscape, 1915 Apokalyptische Landschaft (Apocalyptic Landscape), 1915, oil on canvas, 79 x 115 cm, Private collection.	Apocalyptic Landscape, 1913 Apokalyptische Landschaft (Apocalyptic Landscape), 1913, oil on canvas, 67.3 x 80 cm, (reverse of Landschaft) Formerly in the Marvin & Janet Fishman Collection, Milwaukee	Apocalyptic Landscape, 1913 Apokalyptische Landschaft (Apocalyptic Landscape), 1913, oil on canvas, 79 x 119 cm, Westfalisches Landesmuseum fur Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Munster	The Last Day, 1916 Der Jungste Tag (The Last Day), 1916, oil on canvas, 100 x 150 cm Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
			Go to Apocalyptic Landscape Drawings Meidner on the summer of the apocalyptic paintings
The Burned-Out Homeless Ones,1912 Die Abgebrannten (Heimatlose) (The Burned-Out [Homeless] Ones], 1912, oil on canvas, 63 x 85 cm, Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg.	Burning City, 1913 Brennende Stadt (Burning City), c.1913, (reverse of Burning City), oil on canvas, 68.5 x 80.5cm, The Saint Louis Art Museum, bequest of Morton D. May	Burning City (reverse), 1913 Brennende Stadt (Burning City), c.1913, (reverse of Burning City), oil on canvas, 68.5 x 80.5cm, The Saint Louis Art Museum, bequest of Morton D. May	LINKS

In the summer of 1912 I once more had oil paints and lunch. I unloaded my obsessions onto canvas night and day - Judgement Days, world's ends, and gibbets of skulls, for in those days the great universal storm was already baring its teeth and casting its glaring yellow shadow across my whimpering brush hand"

Ludwig Meidner "Mein Leben" 1919

...They run, To hasten their slow dying. Then they fall, And in the open fields lie still...

George Heym "Umbrae Vitae"