Ludwig Meidner (1884 1966) was an important, but little known, figure in the German expressionist movement. His early Apocalyptic Landscapes are today seen as some of the purest examples of expressionism. A Jewish artist, Meidner continued to produce paintings and prose throughout most of his life, but his exile in London during World War II contributed to the relative neglect of his work, which was exhibited for the first time in decades in 1963 just a few years before his death.
Published to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Meidner s death, Eavesdropper on an Age collects...