Septemberschrei. Hymnen / Gebete / Lästerungen. Mit vierzehn Steindrucken (September-scream. Hymns / Prayers / Calumnies. With Fourteen Lithographs)

Ludwig Meidner, Septemberschrei. Hymnen / Gebete / Lästerungen. Mit vierzehn Steindrucken (September-scream. Hymns / Prayers / Calumnies. With Fourteen Lithographs)

Ludwig Meidner, artist

1884–1966

Septemberschrei. Hymnen / Gebete / Lästerungen. Mit vierzehn Steindrucken (September-scream. Hymns / Prayers / Calumnies. With Fourteen Lithographs), 1920

Where object was made: Berlin, Germany

Material/technique: lithograph; letterpress

Credit line: Anonymous gift

Accession number: 2010.0007

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"Machine in a Void: World War I & the Graphic Arts," Mar-2010, Steve Goddard
German Expressionist artist and writer Ludwig Meidner is best known for his "apocalyptic landscapes" created just before and during the War. Drafted into the army in 1916, September-Cry is Meidner's response the cataclysmic
experience of war. It was written and drawn in 1917 and published in 1920. On page 21 of September-Cry Meidner writes, "This place looks like my pictures. The unexpected, the Last Judgment begins in vast space, shatters in the tumult of verticals ... You shudder and run away from your painful visions." Meidner also produced Krieg (War), a powerful portfolio of anti-war images that was published in 1923, with most of the drawings having been done in 1914.