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Artist:
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Lyonel Feininger
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Title:
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Gross-Kromsdorf I
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Date:
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1915
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Medium:
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Oil on canvas
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Dimensions:
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39 x 31 1/2 in. (99.1 x 80.0 cm)
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Credit Line:
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Bequest of Putnam Dana McMillan
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Location:
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Gallery 367
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Born in New York City, Lyonel Feininger lived in Germany, his parent's homeland, for most of his life. After a brief stay in Paris in 1911, Feininger embraced Cubism, declaring that "What one sees must be transformed in the mind and crystallized." However, he preferred to call his style "prism-ism," saying it was "based upon the principle of monumentality." While living in Weimar in 1913, Feininger began exploring such nearby villages as Grosse-Kromsdorf, the subject of this painting. Attracted to the town's medieval architecture, he spent hours studying its churches and other structures to find "the secret of their form."
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Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Feininger, Lyonel
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Nationality:
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American
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Life Dates:
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American, 1871 - 1956
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Signature and Inscription (on verso, crosspiece of stretcher) in graphite: [L. Feininger, Zehlendorf LR in brown: [Feininger] On stretcher, in pencil: [L. Feininger, Zehlendorf-Mitte, Konigstrasse]
Labels on verso:
Curt Val
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Physical Description:
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Landscape. The subject is one of the many villages around Weimar in Thuringia that the artist visited by bicycle in Bauhaus years.
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Creation Place:
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North America, United States, , ,
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Accession #:
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61.36.4
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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