Villa on the Shore, 4 (sheet 1), 1920/1922

Series title originalMeister des Staatlichen Bauhauses in Weimar (Mappe 1)

Series titleMasters of the Bauhaus in Weimar (portfolio 1)

ArtistLyonel Feininger, New York 1871–1956 New York

PublisherStaatliches Bauhaus Weimar, 1919–1925

PrintStaatliches Bauhaus Weimar, 1919–1925

Woodcut on Japanese paper

Sheet dimensions32 × 38 cm

Image dimensions26,6 × 33,9 cm

Status

not on display

About the workThis motif is based on sketches that Lyonel Feininger made in the Baltic Sea resort of Heringsdorf on the island of Usedom. He transformed the landscape into an abstract, dynamic composition. As head of the print workshop at the Bauhaus in Weimar, Feininger chose this woodcut in 1920 as the opening work for the “First Folder” of the “Bauhaus Prints”. In 1919, the art critic Theodor Däubler wrote about Feininger’s unique “crystalline” style in his text “In the Struggle for Modern Art”: “The earth is blown up! Blocks fly into the air, spring apart: large, geometric, not even seemingly random.”

AccessionAcquisition 1949

Provenance[...]; 19.10.1949 angekauft von der Galerie Hella Nebelung, Düsseldorf

Inventory numberK 1949-70

Contact

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