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Lyonel Feininger
American, 1871 - 1956

Zirchow VI, 1916
American Painting
Oil on canvas
32 3/16 in. x 39 9/16 in. (81.7 cm x 100.5 cm), without frame

Marion Stratton Gould Fund,  46.38

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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 Halles 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.

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