Picture "Nermsdorf" (1925), framed
Picture "Nermsdorf" (1925), framed
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reproduction on paper | framed | glazed | size 49 x 75 cm (h/w)
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Picture "Nermsdorf" (1925), framed
This impressive work bears the unmistakable signature of Lyonel Feininger. Painted in the cubist style, according to the Bauhaus ideal of order. The work depicts the medieval village of Nermsdorf in Weimarer Land, Germany. Feininger directs our gaze to the village church jutting out of the settlement - which once had its characteristic onion dome, that was destroyed by fire in 1988.
Original: Oil on canvas, 1925, privately owned.
High-quality edition on paper. Framed in silver-coloured solid wood frame, glazed. Size 49 x 75 cm (h/w). © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2009
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany, [email protected]
About Lyonel Feininger
1871-1956
Lyonel Feininger is known for his depictions of streets, cities and ships, which are composed of prismatically broken forms and inspired by Cubism and the art of Robert Delaunay.
The painter and graphic artist was born in New York in 1871 as the son of German musicians. He first came to Germany at the age of 16 for a concert tour of his parents and stayed there to study at the Hamburg School of Applied Arts and later at the Royal Prussian Academy in Berlin. After a study visit to Paris, he continued living and working for many years in Germany, where he was close to the "Blauer Reiter" artists' group. Starting in 1919, he made his mark as a master for the graphic workshops of "Bauhaus" in Weimar, Dessau and Berlin.
Feininger, along with Schlemmer, most explicitly realised the Bauhaus ideal of order. For him, the starting point is not the human figure but architecture, the strict geometric structure of forms that he observed in Gothic churches. His studies of the architecture of small German towns established his light-flooded, prismatic style, which was to become a model for many artists.
Feininger first devoted himself to German townscapes and churches. During the National Socialist era, the Nazi Party officially declared Feininger’s work to be "degenerate", which forced him to return to New York in 1937. There he created his famous impressions of the architecture of Manhattan and New York.
Modern art movement. The term originates from the Latin word cubus = cube. A primary influence that inspired the cubists was a concept by Paul Cézanne, who suggested that reality could be reduced to the cube, cone, and ball. In terms of presentation, cubists focused on multiple perspectives of an object within a single image.
Masters of Cubism include Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Fernand Léger. Alexander Archipenko is the best-known sculptor among the Cubists.