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Lot 3234 - A197 Art Impressionniste & Moderne - vendredi, 02. juillet 2021, 17h00

LYONEL FEININGER

(1871 New York 1956)
Die kleine Försterei. 1922.
Watercolour and ink on paper.
Signed lower left: Feininger, titled lower centre: die kleine Försterei, and dated lower right: 28. VI. 22.
27.5 × 31.2 cm.

The authenticity of the work has been confirmed by Achim Moeller, Director of the Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York/Berlin, New York, 29 March 2016. It is registered in the archive under the number 1379-03-29-16.

Provenance:
- Artist's studio.
- Emma Ritter, Oldenburg, received directly from the artist as a gift.
- Karl Schwoon, Oldenburg, received as a gift from the above.
- Private collection, USA.
- Swiss private collection.

The present drawing ‘Die kleine Försterei’ was produced during Lyonel Feininger's time at the Bauhaus in Weimar, where the artist was appointed in 1919 by Walter Gropius as the first master of the newly founded school. The first Bauhaus publication, a portfolio with 12 woodcuts, additionally came from Lyonel Feininger's hand. During his entire Bauhaus period — in Dessau from 1926 onwards — the artist spent considerable time in the Thuringian countryside, studying its localities, architecture and nature.

Our drawing ‘Die kleine Försterei’ was also created on one of Feininger's exploratory tours in the Weimar region. With delicate outlines in ink, the artist sketched a clearing framed by large fir trees in which a small forester’s house is located. Characteristic of Feininger's style, the watercolour infilled in his scenes has a soft and reserved appearance, even blurring the edges of the outlines. Regarding his creative practice, Feininger himself explained that in watercolour he could fully express that which he was able to represent (Lyonel Feininger, in: Ruhmer 1961, p. 9). Thus he seldom transferred fully-worked watercolours into oil paintings. In the case of the work offered here, however, a translation of mediums occurred in a different direction. In 1920, two years before our drawing, Feininger had already produced the oil painting ‘Die kleine Försterei’. While the dimensions of the works vary and a few changes in colour can be observed, our drawing is identical in terms of content to the previous painting in oil. As Eberhard Ruhmer explained Feininger's fascination for the watercolour technique: “As there is now a mysterious connection between the technique and the object chosen by the artist, it seems to me that in the delicate, reserved and comparatively undemanding solutions of the watercolours, perhaps the decisive moment of Feininger's artistic intentions found their most adequate and perfect realisation” (Ruhmer 1961, p. 9).

CHF 60 000 / 80 000 | (€ 61 860 / 82 470)