Stadttor III

Details

LYONEL FEININGER (1871-1956)
Stadttor III
signed, dated and inscribed 'Feininger Stadt=Tor III 14. MÄRZ 1925’ (along the lower edge)
watercolour and pen and ink on paper
13 7⁄8 x 11 1⁄8 in. (35.4 x 28.2 cm.)
Executed on 14 March 1925

Provenance

Private collection.
Achim Moeller, Ltd., London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in October 1979.

Exhibited

Berlin, Galerie Ferdinand Möller, Blätter der Galerie Ferdinand Möller, October 1929, no. 23.
Hanover, Kestner-Gesselschaft, Lyonel Feininger, January - March 1932, no. 86.
London, Achim Moeller, Selected Paintings, Drawings and Graphics of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Autumn 1973, p. 12 (illustrated).
London, Achim Moeller, Lyonel Feininger, Visions of City and Sea, watercolours, drawings, paintings, June - July 1975, no. 16 (illustrated).
Hamburg, Galerie Levy, Lyonel Feininger, Bilder, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, April - June 1978, no. 14 (illustrated).
Weimar, Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar Kunsthalle am Theaterplatz, Malerei und Grafik aus den Beständen der Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar und der Deutschen Bank, July - August 1993. This exhibition later travelled to Wiesbaden, Museum Wiesbaden, September - November 1993 and Dessau, Bauhaus, December 1993 - January 1994.
Schleswig, Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schloß Gottorf, Lyonel Feininger, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Erich Heckel, Künstlerfreundschaften, 1998, no. 49, p. 239 (illustrated p. 181).
Moscow, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Aus Deutscher Sicht, Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Deutsche Bank, November 2004 - January 2005, p. 199.
Dubai, International Financial Centre, Bauhaus, Works from the Deutsche Bank Collection, November 2008, p. 32 (illustrated p. 33).

Special Notice

This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.

Further Details

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. 1740-02-07-22. A certificate of authenticity accompanies the work.

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Lot Essay

According to the authors of the 1998 exhibition catalogue Lyonel Feininger, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Erich Heckel, Künstlerfreundschaften, the title of the present lot, Stadttor III, in associating the two words 'Town' and 'Gate', reveals that the artist was likely referring to the idea of living in a closed living space, linking ot themes in German Romanticism.

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