Artist
Lyonel Feininger (American, 1871–1956)American, 1871–1956
CultureAmerican
Titles
- Zirchow I
Date1912
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsCanvas: 31 11/16 × 39 1/2 in. (80.5 × 100.3 cm)
Frame: 39 5/8 × 47 1/2 × 2 7/8 in. (100.6 × 120.7 × 7.3 cm)
Frame: 39 5/8 × 47 1/2 × 2 7/8 in. (100.6 × 120.7 × 7.3 cm)
Credit LineSarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston
Object numberBF.1979.16
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 203
On view
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to Germany in 1887 to complete his studies,
and he settled in Berlin shortly thereafter.
In 1912 and 1913, he became associated with
the artists’ groups Die Brücke (The Bridge)
and Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider),
adopting the Cubo-Expressionist language
of Germany’s vanguard. Feininger spent
summers on Usedom Island on the Baltic
coast, where the 13th-century St. Jacobus
church in Zirchow captured his imagination.
The Gothic structure ultimately became one
of the major themes in Feininger’s paintings,
drawings, and woodcuts.
ProvenanceDr. Walter Kaesbach Foundation, Mönchengladbach, Germany; appropriated from the Städtisches Kunstmuseum, Mönchengladbach, by the German National Socialist government, 1937; [Galerie Roman Norbert Ketterer, Campione d'Italia, Lugano, Switzerland, 1968]; purchased by the Cecil Amelia Blaffer Foundation; given to the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, 1979.
Exhibition History"Expressionismus," Spencer A. Samuels Company, New York, 1968.
Campione d'Italia, 1968.
San Antonio, 1981.
Texas, 1983–1992.
"Modernism in A Century of Change II: Expressionism," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1998.
"Lyonel Feininger Retrospective," Yokosuka Museum of Art, Japan, August 2–October 5, 2008; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, October 17–December 23, 2008; Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan, January 10–March 1, 2009.
"Van Gogh to Munch: European Masterworks," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California, June 4, 2011–June 4, 2013.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed and dated upper left: "Feininger 12"
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