Portrait of a Soldier | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2005.127
People: Ludwig Meidner, German (Bernstadt, Germany 1884 - 1966 Darmstadt, Germany)
Title: Portrait of a Soldier
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1918
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/4630

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink and graphite on tan wove paper

Dimensions

37 x 27 cm (14 9/16 x 10 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: in black ink at l.c.: LM 1918
inscription: verso l.r., graphite, handwritten: 421
inscription: verso l.l., graphite, handwritten: 4591 / 800. --

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: [Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, New York]. Richard B. Sisson, New York, New York, bequest; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2005.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Bequest of Richard B. Sisson
Accession Year: 2005
Object Number: 2005.127
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Erik Riedel and Gerd Presler, Ludwig Meidner: Catalogue Raisonne of His Sketchbooks, Prestel and Judisches Museum Frankfurt Main (Munich, London and New York, 2013), pp. 58-63, fig. PR 05-21

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