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Ludwig Meidner (1884 Bernstadt, Silesia – 1966 Darmstadt) is one of the most outstanding and versatile artist personalities of the 20th century given that he registered the convulsions and upheavals of his time with a seismographic sense and reflected on them in both his pictorial and literary work.

The focal point of the exhibition “Ludwig Meidner –Encounters” is on portraits by the artist of numerous writers, politicians, journalists and artists he was acquainted with. The exhibition concentrates on the artist’s expressionist heyday, in the 1910s and 1920s, and enables exciting “encounters” …