Else Meidner
Encyclopedia
Else Meidner (née Meyer) was a German Jewish painter. She was married to the artist Ludwig Meidner
, and like him she painted in the expressionist
style.
Ludwig Meidner
Ludwig Meidner was a German expressionist painter and printmaker born in Bernstadt, Silesia. He was apprenticed to a stonemason, but the apprenticeship was not completed. He studied at the Royal School of Art in Breslau and, from 1906-07 at the Julien and Cormon Academies in Paris where he met...
, and like him she painted in the expressionist
Expressionism
Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas...
style.
External links
- http://www.jewishmuseum.de/meidner.html