LYONEL FEININGER (1871-1956) Bleak House
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LYONEL FEININGER (1871-1956)
Bleak House
signed, inscribed and dated 'Composed by Leonell. C. Feininger 1891 The subject is from Dickens' "Bleak House"' (verso)
pen and ink on paper
5 11/16 x 6 13/16 in (14.5 x 17.3 cm)
Executed in 1891
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Achim Moeller, Managing Principal of The Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York – Berlin, registered under no. 1916-04-09-24.
Provenance
Alois J. Schardt Collection, Halle, Berlin & Los Angeles (a gift from the artist).
Thence by descent to the previous owner.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1985.
Exhibited
Madrid, Fundación Juan March, Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956), February 17 – May 28, 2017, no. 1.
At sixteen years of age, Lyonel Feininger left his native New York for Germany to pursue his musical studies. Soon after arriving, however, he turned his focus to the study of art in Hamburg and Berlin, before enrolling at the Academy Colarossi in Paris. He achieved his first commercial success in 1890, when he published some of his satirical drawings with the Berlin based comic magazine Humoristische Blätter. By the time he returned to Berlin in 1893, he supported himself by contributing cartoons and illustrations to German and American periodicals and newspapers.
The present illustration is after Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House, a twenty-episode series created between March 1852 and September 1853, centering around the tale of a long-running legal case involving several contesting wills. Though many in the legal profession criticized Dickens' satire as exaggerated, Bleak House helped support a judicial reform movement that culminated in the enactment of legal reform in the 1870s.
The first recorded owner of the present drawing was the German art historian and museum director, Alois Jakob Schardt, who collected many works by Feininger. Forced from his position at the National Gallery of Berlin by the Nazis, and later from teaching at the University of Halle, Schardt eventually left Germany for the United States in 1940.
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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW YORK
LYONEL FEININGER (1871-1956)
Bleak House
signed, inscribed and dated 'Composed by Leonell. C. Feininger 1891 The subject is from Dickens' "Bleak House"' (verso)
pen and ink on paper
5 11/16 x 6 13/16 in (14.5 x 17.3 cm)
Executed in 1891
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Achim Moeller, Managing Principal of The Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York – Berlin, registered under no. 1916-04-09-24.
Provenance
Alois J. Schardt Collection, Halle, Berlin & Los Angeles (a gift from the artist).
Thence by descent to the previous owner.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1985.
Exhibited
Madrid, Fundación Juan March, Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956), February 17 – May 28, 2017, no. 1.
At sixteen years of age, Lyonel Feininger left his native New York for Germany to pursue his musical studies. Soon after arriving, however, he turned his focus to the study of art in Hamburg and Berlin, before enrolling at the Academy Colarossi in Paris. He achieved his first commercial success in 1890, when he published some of his satirical drawings with the Berlin based comic magazine Humoristische Blätter. By the time he returned to Berlin in 1893, he supported himself by contributing cartoons and illustrations to German and American periodicals and newspapers.
The present illustration is after Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House, a twenty-episode series created between March 1852 and September 1853, centering around the tale of a long-running legal case involving several contesting wills. Though many in the legal profession criticized Dickens' satire as exaggerated, Bleak House helped support a judicial reform movement that culminated in the enactment of legal reform in the 1870s.
The first recorded owner of the present drawing was the German art historian and museum director, Alois Jakob Schardt, who collected many works by Feininger. Forced from his position at the National Gallery of Berlin by the Nazis, and later from teaching at the University of Halle, Schardt eventually left Germany for the United States in 1940.
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