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.

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…

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.

Etching, 1922.

Etching, 1921.

Drypoint, 1922.