LUDWIG MEIDNER Original Unsigned Lithograph 1920 German

LUDWIG MEIDNER (1884-1966)
Bernstadt 1884 - 1966 Darmstadt (German)

Title: Portrait of Dr. Victor Heinrich Klinkhardt (III), from: German Printmakers of our Time | Porträt Dr. Victor Heinrich Klinkhardt (III), from: Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart, 1920

Technique: Original Lithograph on Wove Paper

Paper size: 32.3 x 24.2 cm. / 12.7 x 9.5 in.

Additional Information: This original lithograph is monogrammed and dated “1920” in the stone.
It was published in a total edition of 600 for inclusion in the book “Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart“ [German Printmakers of our Time].
It was commissioned and published by Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig in 1920.
It is a portrait of the publisher, Dr. Victor H. Klinkhardt III and appeared as plate 29 (of 31) in the book. It bears the typographical text “Meidner: Bildnis. Originallithographie”verso.

Other impressions of this work can be found in the important collection of German Expressionist Prints of Marvin and Janet Fishman (exhibited in the Milwaukee Museum of Art) and the Museum of Modern Art [MoMA], New York.

Literature: Flammann, W. (1991). Ludwig Meidner 1884 - 1966. Das druckgraphische Werk, Exhibition catalogue Hofheim am Taunus, Germany: Stadt Hofheim am Taunus.
Reference: Flammann/Hofheim 103

Condition: Very good condition. Pale stain along the left sheet edge. Remains of hinging tape along the right sheet edge, verso.