These paintings of burning cities and fleeing people, coming just before the outbreak of the First World War seemed to be an uncanny prediction of what was to come.

Hans Meid was born on June 3, 1883 in Pforzheim, Germany, and died on January 6, 1957 in Ludwigsburg, Germany. He was a German lithographer, etcher, engraver and painter.

Ludwig Meidner (1884-1966) was born in Bernstadt in Silesia and worked as a plasterer and fashion designer before he studied art in Breslau from 1903-05. From 1906-07, he studied in Paris where he befriended Amedeo Modigliani. After his return to…

This is the earliest of Meidner’s apocalyptic landscapes, a series of paintings he produced in his Berlin studio during the summer of 1912. These paintings of burning cities and fleeing people, coming just before the outbreak of the First World War…

Conrad Felixmüller (1897-1977) was born in Dresden, where he also studied. In 1915 he met Ludwig Meidner, with whom he shared a studio in Berlin, and in 1916 he and Lyonel Feininger exhibited in Herwarth Walden’s Gallery der Sturm. He served as a…

Original Title Die Dritte Jahresgabe Year of Production 1923 Artist Various Medium Book Materials Board, linen Dimensions height: 48 cm; width 37.3 cm Folio containing eight plates with text by Hans Weigert of the Dritte Jahresgabe…

Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1881-1919) was born in Meiderich and studied at the School of Arts and Crafts as well as at the Academy of Art in Düsseldorf. On trips to Paris he discovered the works of Aristide Maillol and Auguste Rodin who influenced his…

Ernest Neuschul was born in Aussig, a small town in what is now the Czech Republic. He studied in Prague and later Vienna, where he was fascinated by the paintings of Klimt and Egon Schiele and the expressionistic works of Oskar Kokoschka. At the…

Drypoint, 1921.

Drypoint, 1922.