Lyonel Feininger - Landstraße
Lyonel Feininger
Landstraße
1923
Watercolour and pen and India ink drawing on fibrous paper 24.6 x 35.1/35.5 cm Framed under glass. Signed, dated, and titled 'Feininger Landstraße 24. Sept. 23' in India ink in lower margin. - Overall browned. Three professionally closed short marginal tears.
In mid-April of 1922 Lyonel Feininger spent several days in Neubrandenburg. There, on 16 April, the artist created his first pencil study of the motif of a tree-lined country lane, which he entitled “Chaussee bei Neubrandenburg” at a later point in time (now at the Harvard Art Museum/Busch-Reisinger Museum). All of the essential elements of the picture's composition are already laid out there: the fan-shaped crowns of the trees as well as the tilted stumps on the right side of the way and the two people walking in the background. On 21 September 1923 Feininger developed this motif into an ink and watercolour-wash drawing, which defines the background in more detail. Three days later he created the final version presented here. The artist was particularly interested in the crowns of the trees, which dominate the pictorial space as crystalline forms fanning out towards the top. Some of the tree trunks rise up and some have been snapped off - together with the layers of clouds lying on top of one another in the lofty sky and the strongly foreshortened country lane pushing into the background, they form an energised web of intersecting vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines that invest what is actually a simple landscape motif with a powerful dynamism.
Certificate
Achim Moeller, Director of the Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York – Berlin, has confirmed the authenticity of this work with a photo-certificate dated 25 March 2020. It is registered in the archive of the Lyonel Feininger Project under the number 1648-03-25-20.
Provenance
Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia/USA; in family possession since
Exhibitions
Cologne1957 (Kölnischer Kunstverein), Malerei des 20. Jahrhunderts in Kölner Privatbesitz, cat. no. 26
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Lyonel Feininger
Landstraße
1923
Watercolour and pen and India ink drawing on fibrous paper 24.6 x 35.1/35.5 cm Framed under glass. Signed, dated, and titled 'Feininger Landstraße 24. Sept. 23' in India ink in lower margin. - Overall browned. Three professionally closed short marginal tears.
In mid-April of 1922 Lyonel Feininger spent several days in Neubrandenburg. There, on 16 April, the artist created his first pencil study of the motif of a tree-lined country lane, which he entitled “Chaussee bei Neubrandenburg” at a later point in time (now at the Harvard Art Museum/Busch-Reisinger Museum). All of the essential elements of the picture's composition are already laid out there: the fan-shaped crowns of the trees as well as the tilted stumps on the right side of the way and the two people walking in the background. On 21 September 1923 Feininger developed this motif into an ink and watercolour-wash drawing, which defines the background in more detail. Three days later he created the final version presented here. The artist was particularly interested in the crowns of the trees, which dominate the pictorial space as crystalline forms fanning out towards the top. Some of the tree trunks rise up and some have been snapped off - together with the layers of clouds lying on top of one another in the lofty sky and the strongly foreshortened country lane pushing into the background, they form an energised web of intersecting vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines that invest what is actually a simple landscape motif with a powerful dynamism.
Certificate
Achim Moeller, Director of the Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York – Berlin, has confirmed the authenticity of this work with a photo-certificate dated 25 March 2020. It is registered in the archive of the Lyonel Feininger Project under the number 1648-03-25-20.
Provenance
Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia/USA; in family possession since
Exhibitions
Cologne1957 (Kölnischer Kunstverein), Malerei des 20. Jahrhunderts in Kölner Privatbesitz, cat. no. 26
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