Painter and draughtsman, born in Berlin, where she studied at the Kunstgewerbe Museum’s teaching department, 1918–25, with Adolf Meyer. She also studied at Lewin-Funke art school under the Expressionist Ludwig Meidner, whom she married in 1927. He influenced her work, as did her friend, Käthe Kollwitz. After some success in Germany, with the advent of the Nazis Else Meidner moved to London in 1939 with her husband, who returned to Germany in 1952. She remained in London, visiting him until his death in 1966. She showed at Ben Uri and with Margaret Fischer. In 1990 John Denham Gallery included her in a show of exiled artists. Ben Uri Art Society holds her work. It put on a joint show of Else and Ludwig Meidner to open its new gallery at Boundary Road in 2002.