Esthetic and religious transgression in the work of doubly-gifted expressionist artists on the example of Ludwig Meidner

Abstract

Ludwig Meidner (1884‒1966) is one of the doubly-gifted artists in the realm of German expressionism, he is known as a painter as well as a writer. In both media Meidner transgresses the border between the immanent and the transcendent, his religiosity being strongly involved with expressionistic ideas such as the intertwining of art and religion. The article focusses on the interaction of Meidner’s drawings and texts in his anthologies „September Cry“ and „Behind my Head the Sea of Stars“.