Portrait of an Old Woman (Porträt einer Greisin)

Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
German Expressionist prints, including this drypoint, first entered the Brooklyn Museum collection in 1937. Brooklyn was among the first major American museums to acquire such work, a bold move during a period when anti-German sentiment ran high in the United States. It was also in 1937 that the Nazis condemned artists such as Meidner in their Degenerate Art exhibition in Germany.
Caption
Ludwig Meidner (German, 1884–1966). Portrait of an Old Woman (Porträt einer Greisin), 1920. Drypoint on laid paper, Image (Plate): 9 3/8 x 7 1/4 in. (23.8 x 18.4 cm) Sheet: 15 3/4 x 11 11/16 in. (40 x 29.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of J. B. Neumann, 37.427. © Ludwig Meidner-Archive, Jüdisches Museum der Stadt Frankfurt am Main. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Gallery
Not on view
Gallery
Not on view
Artist
Title
Portrait of an Old Woman (Porträt einer Greisin)
Date
1920
Geography
Place made: Germany
Medium
Drypoint on laid paper
Classification
Dimensions
Image (Plate): 9 3/8 x 7 1/4 in. (23.8 x 18.4 cm) Sheet: 15 3/4 x 11 11/16 in. (40 x 29.7 cm)
Inscriptions
Lower right in graphite: "LMeidner"; lower left in graphite: "Greisin"; bottom center later addition graphite: "LUDWIG MEIDNER" Verso center in graphite: "37.427"
Markings
Verso stamped center: "BROOKLYN MUSEUM/BROOKLYN, N.Y." in rectangle (Lugt 307b)
Credit Line
Gift of J. B. Neumann
Accession Number
37.427
Rights
© Ludwig Meidner-Archive, Jüdisches Museum der Stadt Frankfurt am Main
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