© Ludwig Meidner-Archiv, Jüdisches Museum der Stadt Frankfurt am Main
On view
Print and Drawings
Howard Mele Gallery
Howard Mele Gallery
Portrait of a Man,
1915
Ludwig Meidner, 1884–1966; born Bernstadt, Germany (present-day Bierutów, Poland); died Darmstadt, Germany
x1990-224
This drawing is one of many such portraits Meidner made of members of Berlin’s avant-garde artistic and literary world from 1912 to 1925. The artist’s own words best communicate his approach: “Do not be afraid of the face of a human being. It is the reflection of divine glory although it is more often like a slaughterhouse, bloody rags and all. Press together wrinkled brow, root of nose, and eyes. Dig like a mole 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 wedded to yours in a covenant of pathos.”
More About This Object
Information
Title
Portrait of a Man
Dates
1915
Maker
Medium
Graphite
Dimensions
59.9 x 47 cm (23 9/16 x 18 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Sophie Goldberg Bargmann and Valentine Bargmann
Object Number
x1990-224
Place Made
Europe, Germany
Signatures
Signed and dated in graphite, bottom right: L Meidner | Auguste [possibly] 1915
Inscription
in ink, verso, lower left: 162 [within a red stamped circle]
in graphite, verso, lower left: V976 [within a circle]
Culture
Materials
Subject
[Kunsthandlung J. Kagan, Worms]; purchased by Dr. Zacharias Goldberg (1883-1962);inherited by his daughter Sophie Goldberg Bargmann (1912-1988); bequeathed by Sophie Goldberg Bargmann and Valentine Bargmann (1908-1989), Princeton, NJ, to Princeton University Art Museum, 1990
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1990," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 50, no. 1 (1991): p. 16-69., p. 56
- Laura Giles, Klinger to Kollwitz: German art in the age of Expressionism: Princeton University Art Museum, January 29 - June 9, 2002, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2002).
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), p. 65 (illus.)
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013), p. 65
