Self-Portrait
Ludwig Meidner
1922
- Medium
- Black lithographic crayon on brown wove paper
- Dimensions
- 75.5 × 55.5 cm (29 3/4 × 21 7/8 in.)
- Genre
- crayon
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)crayonprints and drawingcrayonspaper (fiber product)
About
Ludwig Meidner was a seminal figure of German Expressionism who dealt with issues such as life in an urban society and the artist’s interior psychology. After World War I he became more introverted and is known above all for penetrating self-portraits produced as prints, drawings, and oils.
