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Lyonel Feininger

Kirche von Treptow an der Rega I
1926

Watercolour and Indian ink on paper

28.5 × 41.5 cm / 11 1/4 × 16 5/16 in

Signed, dated »11.7.26« and titled

The inverted Venus symbol ♀ at the bottom left of the picture is an indication that Lyonel Feininger wanted to keep this work for his personal collection. The watercolour shows St Mary's Church in Treptow (now Trzebiatów) on the Baltic Sea. The artist often visited Treptow during his summer holidays in Deep (now Mrzeżyno) from 1924 to 1935. This church in Treptow is depicted in the paintings Vita Nova, 1947 (Moeller 488) and Church of Old Treptow, 1949 (Moeller 510)

Registered in the archive of the Lyonel Feininger Project LLC New York/Berlin as no. 1821-01-23-23

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Expertise

Certificate of Authenticity by Achim Moeller, Managing Principal of The Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York/Berlin 2023

Provenance

Laurence Feininger, Trento (the artist's son); Private Collection Europe (family owned 1973-2023)

Exhibitions

Galerie Ludorff, "Neuerwerbungen Frühjahr 2024", Düsseldorf 2023

Literature

Galerie Ludorff, "Neuerwerbungen Frühjahr 2024", Düsseldorf 2024, S. 24

About Lyonel Feininger

Lyonel Feininger's influence on 20th century art is closely linked to his teaching activities at the Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar, which began in 1919.