Location

225 German Expressionism & Surrealism

Fun Fact

Lyonel Feininger's son Andreas was a noted photographer whose works are also in the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Description

Feininger based this painting on his sketches of the small German village of Markwippach, where he frequently hiked through the countryside. The composition weds intense, expressionist color with the flattened, fragmented planes of Cubism to create a dynamic, imaginary view of the village revolving around a church. Painted during World War I, and suggesting a village both destroyed and reconstructed, Feininger conveys the utopian desire of the German Expressionists to remake the world.

Inscriptions

Inscription

Signed upper left: "Feininger / 17"

Provenance

1960

Mrs. Lyonel Feininger [1880-1970], New York, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1960-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art XLVII, no. 67 (December 1960): 235. Reproduced: p. 235

Lurie, Ann Tzeutschler. "Lyonel Feininger: Markwippach" The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XLVIII, no. 4 (April 1961): 72-75. Reproduced: p. 72

Hess, Hans, and Lyonel Feininger. Lyonel Feininger. New York, NY: Abrams, 1961. Reproduced: pl 7

Christensen, Erwin O. A Guide to Art Museums in the United States. New York, NY: Dodd, Mead, 1968. Reproduced: p. 168

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 193 archive.org

Cleveland Museum of Art. Art of the Twentieth Century in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Dept. of Art History & Education, CMA, 1969. Mentioned: p. 3 archive.org

Hunter, Sam, and John M. Jacobus. American Art of the 20th Century: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. New York, NY: H.N. Abrams, 1973. Reproduced: no. 222

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 244 archive.org

The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LXVIII (February 1981):43. Reproduced: p. 43

März, Roland. Lyonel Feininger: von Gelmeroda nach Manhattan : Retrospektive der Gemälde. Berlin, Germany: G+H Verlag, 1998. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 100-101

Egging, Björn, and Steven Lindberg. Becoming a Bauhaus artist: Lyonel Feininger, woodcuts. Bielefeld, Germany: Kerber, 2013. Reproduced: p. 76

Exhibition history

Lyonel Feininger. Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, NY: (date of exhibition unknown).

Lyonel Feininger. Buchholz Gallery and Willard Gallery, New York, NY (March 11-29, 1941).

Lyonel Feininger Memorial Exhibition, 1959-61, American Tour. San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA (November 6-December 13, 1959); Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnsapolis, MN (January 6-February 7, 1960); Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 18-March 20, 1960); Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (April 8-May 8, 1960); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (May 19-June 26, 1960).

Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 30, 1960-January 1, 1961).

Lyonel Feininger, 1871-1956: A Memorial Exhibition. Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL (April 26-May 29, 1966); Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (July 10-August 11, 1966); The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (September 7-October 23, 1966).

Lyonel Feininger - From Gelmeroda to Manhattan. Neue Nationalgalerie (organizer) (July 3-October 14, 1998); Haus der Kunst, Munich (November 1, 1998-January 24, 1999).

Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008).