Krieg. 1940.
Oil crayon- and charcoal drawing, partly washed.
Monogrammed in Hebrew, dated and inscribed with small flag in left margin. On wove paper. 74.7 x 56.5 cm (29.4 x 22.2 in), size of sheet.
With trimmed pencil drawing in lower left. Verso with full-page oil chalk drawing of a biblical scene, monogrammed and dated 1932 lower left. [CB].

We are grateful to Erik Riedel, Ludwig Meidner Archive at the Jewish Museum, Frankfurt am Main, for his kind expert advice.

PROVENANCE: From artst's estate (verso with estate stamp and with hand-written inventory number "II/960"; not in Lugt).
Galerie Ruchti, Cologne, 1979.
Private ownership France.

EXHIBITION: Ludwig Meidner. Zeichnungen aus dem Nachlaß, Galerie Ruchti, Cologne, 1979, cat. no. 70 (no illu.).