 Ludwig Meidner was apprenticed to a stonemason, but his apprenticeship was not completed.He studied at the Royal School of Art in Breslau and, from 1906 to 1907 he studied painting at the Académie Julian and Cormon Academies in Paris where he met and became friends with Amedeo Modigliani.He returned to Berlin to work as a fashion illustrator and produced views of Berlin.