LYONEL FEININGER (1871-1956)

Spaziergänger (Promenade)

Details

LYONEL FEININGER (1871-1956)
Spaziergänger (Promenade)
woodcut
1918
on thin, laid Kozo Japan paper
signed in pencil
presumably an unnumbered proof aside from the deluxe edition of ten on this paper and the standard edition on German paper of one hundred, published in Neue Europäische Graphik I, by the Staatliches Bauhaus, Weimar, 1921, with the Bauhaus blindstamp at lower left
with margins
in very good condition
Block 37 x 29,3 cm. (14 ½ x 11 5⁄8 in.)
Sheet 41 x 35 cm. (16 ¼ x 13 ¾ in.)

Provenance

Kornfeld & Klipstein, Bern.
Acquired from or through the above, invoiced on 6 February 1968; then by descent to the present owners.

Literature

L. Prasse, Lyonel Feininger - A Definitive Catalogue of his Graphic Work: Etchings, Lithographs and Woodcuts, Cleveland,1972, no. W 113, p. 171 (another impression ill.).
K. Weber, Punkt Linie Fläche - Druckgraphik am Bauhaus, Berlin, 1999, no. 1.2., p. 36 & 38 (another impression ill.).

Exhibited

Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Aus der Werkstatt des Künstlers – Druckgraphik und vorbereitende Zeichnungen der Sammlung Hegewisch, March 1999 - October 2000, p. 57 (ill.) & 101-102.
Yokosuka, Yokosuka Museum of Art, Lyonel Feiniger: Retrospective, August - October 2008; then Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, October - December 2008; and The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, January - March 2009, no. 68 (ill.), p. 82.

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Lot Essay

This large and important woodcut, closely related to previous drawing of 1914 (see lot 917) but taken to a greater degree of abstraction, was published in the first portfolio of prints by the master teachers of the Bauhaus. Feininger met its founder and director Walter Gropius in 1918 and joined the Bauhaus in Weimar as a teacher the following year. In 1921 he was appointed director of the school's print workshop.

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