Zirchow VI
1916
32 3/16 x 39 9/16 in. (81.7 x 100.5 cm)
Lyonel Feininger
United States
(New York, NY, 1871 - 1956, New York, NY)
Object Type:
Painting
Medium and Support:
Oil on canvas
Credit Line:
Marion Stratton Gould Fund
Accession Number:
1946.38
Location: Currently on view
Born in America, Lyonel Feininger spent much of his adult life living and painting in Germany. He developed his own personal style of Cubism in which splinters of form and space are rhythmic and interlocking. At the time the Nazis took over the German government and its cultural properties in the 1930s, the National Museum of Halle owned Zirchow VI. The Nazi campaign against abstract art, labeled “degenerate,” led to the sale of the museum’s collection of modern paintings including Zirchow VI.
[Gallery label text, 2007]
Marks
Artist's signature, upper right: Feininger
Provenance
Städtische Museum für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe (Moritzburg), Halle, Germany by 1928; confiscated from them by the Nazis in 1937 and sold through the Fischer Gallery, Lucerne; purchased from them by Karl Nierendorf (Nierendorf Gallery), New York, after the auction of June 30, 1939; purchased from them by the Gallery in 1946
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Bibliography
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Article Title: Two Paintings by Feininger Purchased.
Article Scope: Article.
Memorial Art Gallery.
Gallery Notes.
Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1935-1995.
Volume Number: 12,
Issue Number: 3.
Issue Date: January-February 1947.
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Rochester Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Handbook.
Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1961.
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Article Scope: Entry and reproduction.
Susan Donahue
and James Cahill.
Masters of Landscape: East and West.
Utica, NY: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1963.
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Article Scope: Entry.
Twentieth Century American Masters.
South Bend, IN: The Art Center, 1978.
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Article Title: Looted Art.
Article Scope: Article and reproduction.
MAGazine.
Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery
Issue Date: March-April 1999.
Page Number: 2-3
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Memorial Art Gallery.
ARTiculate.
Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2000--.
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Article Scope: Mention and reproduction.
Peter Selz.
German Expressionist Painting.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1957.
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Article Scope: Mention and reproduction.
Hans Hess.
Lyonel Feininger.
New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1961.
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Article Scope: Mention.
June L. Ness.
Lyonel Feininger.
New York, NY: Praeger Publishers, 1974.
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Article Scope: Exhibition Checklist.
Dorothy Miller, ed.
Lyonel Feininger and Marsden Hartley.
New York, NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1944.
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Article Scope: Mention.
Forbidden Art in the Third Reich: Paintings by German Artists whose Work was Banned from Museums and Forbidden to Exhibit.
New York, NY: Nierendorf Gallery, 1946.
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Article Scope: Exhibition Checklist.
Ruth S. Wilkins, ed.
American Painting from 1830.
Syracuse, NY: Everson Museum of Art, 1965.
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Article Scope: Mention and reproduction.
Stephanie Barron.
"Degenerate Art": The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany.
Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991.
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Article Scope: Entry.
Gemälde und Plastiken Moderner Meister auf Deutschen Museen.
Lucerne, Switzerland: Galerie Fischer, 1939.
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Article Scope: Entry and reproduction.
Andreas Hüneke.
Die faschistische Aktion "Entartete Kunst" 1937 in Halle.
Halle, Switzerland: Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg Halle, 1987.
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Article Scope: Mention.
Uwe Fleckner.
Angriff auf die Avantgarde: Kunst und Kunstpolitik im Nationalsozialismus.
Munich, Germany: Oldenbourg Verlag, 2007.
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Article Scope: Mention and reproduction.
Jean-Patrick Duchesne, ed.
L'Art Dégénéré selon Hitler: La vente de Lucerne, 1939.
Liége, Belgium: Université de Liege, 2014.
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Article Scope: Mention and reproduction.
Marjorie Searl
and Lu Harper.
The Memorial Art Gallery: 100 Years.
Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2013.
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Article Scope: Entry and reproduction.
Christian Philipsen, ed.
Bauhaus Meister Moderne: Das Comeback.
Halle (Saale), Germany: Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, 2019.
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