Executed a year before the outbreak of war, the painting shows Villa Kochmann, on the corner of the Residenzstrasse and Alemannenallee in Dresden, which still stands. The deconstructed building, captured in the middle of the night using a palette of black, grey and bluish tones, is considered by some authors to be a portrait of the house’s owner, Franz Kochmann, who had made a fortune from a liquor store in Kattowitz and owned a lithographic workshop in Dresden. This hypothesis would explain…

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Ludwig Meidner, Burning Factory, c. 1913

Ludwig Meidner – Encounters October 9, 2016 until February 5, 2017 Institut Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, Artists’ Colony Museum Olbrichweg 13 A, 64287 Darmstadt The focal point of the “Ludwig Meidner – Encounters” exhibition was on portraits the artist created of numerous writers, politicians, journalists and artists he was acquainted with. The exhibition concentrated on the artist’s … Continue reading "Ludwig Meidner – Encounters at the Artists’ Colony Museum Darmstadt"

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Ludwig Meidner, 1913