Jeremiah the Prophet in the Pit

Many of Meidner’s biblical images deal with the prophets, with whom the artist identified. After all, Meidner, too, was particularly attuned to the upheavals and convulsions of his time. The scene depicted here shows the prophet Jeremiah, who is promised rescue from his imprisonment. Meidner produced the drawing in 1935, when as a Jewish artist in Nazi Germany he was facing increased repression and was pursuing different plans for emigration.