Lyonel Feininger

Windmühle in Werder (Windmill in Werder) | 《韋爾德爾的風車》

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The Spirit of Colour: Property from a Private Collection, Germany

色彩之韻：德國私人收藏

Lyonel Feininger

萊昂內爾・費寧格

1871 - 1956

Windmühle in Werder (Windmill in Werder)

《韋爾德爾的風車》

signed Feininger and dated 22 (lower right); titled on the stretcher

款識：藝術家簽名Feininger並紀年22（右下）

oil on canvas

油彩畫布

48.3 by 40cm., 19 by 15¾in.

48.3 x 40 公分；19 x 15 ¾ 英寸

Painted in 1922.

1922年作

Achim Moeller, Managing Principal of The Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York – Berlin has confirmed the authenticity of this work, which is registered under no. 1678-12-15-20. The work is included in Lyonel Feininger: The Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings by Achim Moeller under no. 239. A certificate of authenticity accompanies the work.

Lilienfeld Galleries, New York (on consignment from the artist in 1945)
Carter C. Higgins, North Brookfield, Massachusetts
Private Collection (by descent from the above circa 1964)
Daniel B. Grossman, New York
Sale: Neumeister Kunstauktionen, Munich, 26th May 1990, lot 129
Galerie Utermann, Dortmund
Private Collection, Germany (acquired from the above in 1990)
A gift from the above to the present owner

H. Hess, Lyonel Feininger, London, 1961, no. 226, illustrated p. 269

Lyonel Feininger. Städte und Küsten: Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik (exhibition catalogue), Kunsthalle Nürnberg-Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, Nuremberg, 1992, p. 266

Lyonel Feininger: Von Gelmeroda nach Manhattan. Retrospektive der Gemälde (exhibition catalogue), Neue Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin & Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1998-99, pp. 298, 299 & 303

J.L. Farber, 'Lyonel Charles Adrian Feininger (1871-1956): Mill in Autumn, 1932', in American Dreams: American Art to 1950 in the Williams College Museum of Art, New York, 2001, p. 152

Achim Moeller, Lyonel Feininger: The Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, www.feiningerproject.org, no. 239, illustrated in colour

Additional information for this entry was provided by Moeller Fine Art Projects | The Lyonel Feininger Project, New York – Berlin.

New York, Lilienfeld Galleries, Exhibition of American Contemporary Paintings, 1940, no. 12 (titled The Windmill)
Dortmund, Galerie Utermann, Lyonel Feininger: Ölbilder, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, 1990, no. 1, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Schleswig, Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schloß Gottorf, Lyonel Feininger, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Erich Heckel: Künstlerfreundschaften, 1998, no. 27, illustrated in colour in the catalogue