The Gate, 1920
Woodcut on Japanese paper
Sheet dimensions48,8 × 58 cm
Image dimensions41 × 44,7 cm
About the workIn the deepest countryside near the Baltic Sea, Lyonel Feininger found the subjects for his images: Gothic churches, medieval fortifications, desolate landscapes. The Bauhaus artist revisited the motif of the Rostock Gate in Ribnitz, the basis for this woodcut, on a number of different trips. He captured it in drawings, used it for a caricature as well as additional woodcuts and for an etching in 1912. In this woodcut from 1920, lines and surfaces meet in highly contrasting ways and emphasise the impressive architecture.
AccessionAcquisition 1958
Provenance[...]; 21.7.1958 angekauft von C.G. Boerner GmbH, Düsseldorf
Inventory numberK 1958-116
