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Feininger was born in New York City, but spent a great deal of his time in Germany, where he taught at the Bauhaus School. This woodcut presents Feininger's typical use of fragmented angles and lines as well as a disjointed approach to composition. It depicts a cityscape dominated by a church steeple and is a prime example of an Expressionist view of urban life.
Source: News, November December 2000.
Exhibition History"Expressionist Woodcuts" Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, January 11 - March 31, 2002
Exhibition History"Expressionist Woodcuts" Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, January 11 - March 31, 2002
DimensionsSheet: 12 3/16 × 16 in. (31 × 40.6 cm)
Image: 8 7/8 × 10 7/8 in. (22.5 × 27.6 cm)
Image: 8 7/8 × 10 7/8 in. (22.5 × 27.6 cm)
Accession Number 2000.13
Classificationsprint
CopyrightPublic Domain
SignedLyonel Feininger (l.l in pencil)
InscriptionsZottelstedt (l/r in pencil)
Edition100 edition size
Provenance(R.S. Johnson Fine Art, Chicago, IL); Robert Levin [purchased from the previous, 1975]; (R.S. Johnson Fine Art, Chicago, IL); Emily Weitz [purchased from the previous, August 2000]; Des Moines Art Center [gift of the previous, 2000]
