Ludwig Meidner - Selbstbildnis - image-1

Lot 384 D

Ludwig Meidner - Selbstbildnis

Auction 1121 - overview Cologne
30.11.2018, 17:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 16.000 € - 18.000 €
Result: 19.840 € (incl. premium)

Ludwig Meidner

Selbstbildnis
1918

Pen and ink over pencil sketch on wove paper 65.8 x 51.1 cm Framed under glass. Signed and dated 'L. Meidner 1918' in black lower centre. Inscribed 'Erste Zeichnung nach dem Krieg' in pencil lower right. - Stamped and inscribed "NACHLASS Ludwig Meidner Inv.-Nr. II/178" verso. - Slightly browned with light-stain. Professionally formerly restored marginal tear lower centre.

Provenance

Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath, Frankfurt (1973); Private possession, Hesse; Lempertz Cologne, Modern Art auction 891, 3 June 2006, lot 824; Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia

Literature

Claudia Marquart, Die frühen Selbstbildnisse 1905 - 1925, in: exhib. cat. Ludwig Meidner. Zeichner, Maler, Literat 1884-1966, Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 1991, p. 36 with illus. no. 12

Exhibitions

Frankfurt 1971 (Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath), Ludwig Meidner, cat. no. 16