Seascape (Marine)
Maker
Lyonel Feininger
(American, active in Germany, France, and U.S.A., 1871 - 1956)
Date7 July 1954
MediumInk, watercolor and wash on laid paper
DimensionsSheet (sight): 11 1/2 × 18 1/8 in. (29.2 × 46 cm)
Sheet (irregular, max): 12 5/8 × 18 15/16 in. (32.1 × 48.1 cm)
Sheet (irregular, max): 12 5/8 × 18 15/16 in. (32.1 × 48.1 cm)
Credit LineFrom the collection of Janice and Henri Lazarof
Object number2000.28
Object TypeDrawings
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In his paintings and watercolors, Lyonel Feininger employed Expressionistic coloration with an underlying network of modulated, intersecting planes and lines characteristic of Cubism. Although painted nearly twenty years after leaving Germany for his native America, this subtly worked sheet is representative of the geometric abstractions of the Bauhaus designs Feininger had perfected while teaching at this acclaimed experimental German school for arts and design in the 1920s.
