Schlossgasse

Artist Lyonel Feininger (1871 - 1956)

Date1915

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions39 1/2 × 31 1/4 in. (100.3 × 79.4 cm)
Framed: 49 1/2 in. × 41 1/2 in. × 2 in.

ClassificationsPainting

Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2007.194

Signedl.l.: Feininger / 15

Accession number 2007.194

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceMeyer-Brodnitz, Berlin, Germany; Ludwig Fisher, Frankfurt, Germany; to Dr. Max Fisher (his son), New York, NY; (Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, NY); to ([Charles] Alan Gallery, New York, NY), 1953; to William H. Lane Foundation, Leominster, MA, 1953-1995; to (Christie's, London, England), October 9, 1997, sale 5859, lot 197; Private Collection, MA; to (Babcock Galleries, New York, NY); purchased by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2007
Label TextBorn in New York City, Lyonel Feininger studied music and art in Hamburg, Germany, and painting at the Royal Academy of Art in Berlin. The architecture of German cities became a main subject for his early art. In Schlossgasse, he used a Cubist style to depict a closed alley. The viewer sees buildings from different angles and perspectives simultaneously. The houses are painted in precise, sharply defined forms in a flattened and compressed space.
Inscribedverso, on canvas: Schloßgasse Oct. 1915