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LUDWIG MEIDNER
Bernstadt 1884 – 1966 Darmstadt
An Expressionist painter, printmaker and writer, Meidner was briefly apprenticed in the building trade before studying art, firstly, 1903-05, at the Royal School of Art in Breslau, and then, 1906-07, in Paris, where he attended both the Academy Julian and Cormoron’s studio.
In 1912, four years after his return to Berlin, he developed an ultra expressionist style in a series of apocalyptic landscapes and his studio became a place of gathering for the avant-garde. With Jakob Steinhardt and Richard Janthur, Meidner founded Die Pathetiker. They held a single exhibition at Der Sturm Gallery in 1912.
After WWI, through the 1920’s, he turned to Jewish religious subjects, in particular a series of prophets and by 1923 had eschewed Expressionism.
He ceased etching after 1925.
In his printmaking, which he probably started about 1913, Meidner focussed on portraiture. He etched forty self-portraits over the decade he was active in the medium.
Selbstbildnis,
radierend vor dem Spiegel im Atelier
Self-portrait etching in front of the mirror in the studio
Ludwig Meidner XXXI; Flamman 217
268 x 208 mm (plate); 328 x 263 mm (sheet)
Original etching, 1924.
Signed in pencil.
Published in Die Schaffenden 1924.
Edition of 125.
On wove. Trimmed in the margins.
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Meidner’s thirty-first self portrait.
Above his head is the single gas jet, as described by George Grosz in his Autobiography
(Meidner) was a strange little spirit who only came alive at night. (He) lived in a hole of a
garret…Right next to the door as one entered was an old iron, pot-bellied stove. Beside it
was a high mound …concealed in semi-obscurity because the sole source of illumination …
came from a single gas jet suspended from the ceiling… Whenever Meidner gesticulated,
which he did frequently and passionately … a cloud of dust would rise… We called this rain
of ashes “The Destruction of Pompei”.
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BRIAN DENYER-BAKER A.R.C.A.
Born Storrington, Sussex 1940
Tea time
D-B 103
188 x 148 mm
Original aquatint,1998.
An artist’s proof, signed in pencil and entitled.
Printed in brown and black.
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The artist comments
The actual name on the lantern clock is “ Nicholas Bodle of East Grinstead”,
which I changed to Nicholas , for artistic reason.
I have owned the clock for many years. It dates back to 1700, and there is another
example at Ightham Mote, Kent (National Trust).
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FRANK HENRY MASON
Seaton Carew, Durham 1876 – 1965 Greenwich
Mason was a cadet at the naval school ship HMS Conway from 1880 to 1882, and then spent a little time at sea before training as a marine engineer with Parsons, working in Hartlepool, Leeds and Scarborough.
In around 1894 he settled in Scarborough, where in his spare time he had art lessons at the School of Art and made regular trips to visit Staithes, where a number of artists were congregated.
Mason abandoned engineering in 1898 to become a fulltime artist. In 1901 he was a founding member of the Staithes Art Club. Like several of the Staithes artists of the time Mason visited and found inspiration in Holland, exhibiting a Dutch subject in the 1904 Staithes Art Club exhibition.
During the First World War Mason was a shipping war artist in the RNVR.
He probably did not take up etching until after 1918, at the height of the Etching Boom, when he joined and exhibited with the newly established Society of Graphic Art in London.
Windmills at Zaandam
198 x 268 mm
Original etching, c1920.
Signed in pencil.
On cream van Gelder Zonen laid paper.
Mount-stained.
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DWIGHT CASE STURGES
Boston 1874 – 1940 Boston
Initially a newspaper artist and cartoonist, Sturges studied painting at the Cowles Art School in Boston.
From 1910 he devoted himself increasingly to etching, though prior to his first one-man show in 1914 he destroyed the forty plates he had produced to date and began again.
He was a member of the Chicago Society of Etchers , the Canadian Society of Etchers and other Arts Associations. Sturges worked in etching and drypoint, producing Boston scenes, figure studies engaged in various activities and trades and professions, and portraits. His exhibitions usually sold out.
The Guitarist
Unknown to Natalie Sturges Butler (the artist’s daughter)
224 x 174 mm
Original etching, c1915.
Signed in pencil.
On wove paper watermarked Umbria, Italy.
A little light stained.
£120
The light coming from a side window behind the figure was a favourite motif of Rembrandt.
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JEFF CLARKE R.E.
Born Brighton 1935
In the Mud, Brancaster
278 x 353 mm
Original drypoint, 2019.
Signed in pencil and entitled.
On strong white wove.
£280
The Norfolk coastline at Brancaster has a strong appeal for Jeff and on visits in recent years he has used thin plastic sheets which can be scratched into on the spot in quick sketches that are printable back in his studio. Most are only printed in single impressions.
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