The Move

1915

Ludwig Meidner

Artist, German, 1884 - 1966

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink with black wash over graphite

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 45.2 × 54.5 cm (17 13/16 × 21 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.114


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Wolf Schön, Cologne, after 1963. (Hom Gallery, Washington, D. C.); Ruth Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4740), purchased February 24, 1986; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1963

  • Ludwig Meidner. Kunsthalle Recklinghausen; Haus am Waldsee Berlin; and Kunsthalle Darmstadt, 1963-1964, no. 105 (cat. by Thomas Grochowiak)

2014

  • Modern German Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014.

Bibliography

1966

  • Grochowiak, Thomas. Ludwig Meidner. Recklinghausen, 1966: 105, Abb. 50.

Inscriptions

signed and dated at bottom right, in pen and black ink: L Meidner 1915; on verso, in graphite, by later hand: M30630; 14 / Stric(...)ing (?); 127.

Wikidata ID

Q64594349


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