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Zirchow VI
191632 3/16 x 39 9/16 in. (81.7 x 100.5 cm)
Lyonel Feininger
American (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: Not 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]
[Gallery label text, 2007]
Marks
Artist's signature, upper right: Feininger
Provenance
Artist; Museum Moritzburg, Halle, Germany by 1928; confiscated and sold by the Nazis (auction commissioned by the National Socialists held at the Fischer Gallery in Lucerne, Switzerland, June 30, 1939); purchased by Karl Nierendorf (Nierendorf Gallery), New York from the Fischer Gallery at or shortly after the 1939 Lucerne auction; purchased by the Gallery in 1946
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Gemälde und Plastiken Moderner Meister auf Deutschen Museen 5/30/1930 - 6/29/1939
- Retrospective in honor of Feininger's 60th birthday National Gallery, Kronprinzen-Palais 12/1/1931 - 1/1/1932
- Entartete Kunst 7/19/1937 - 6/18/1941
- Lyonel Feininger - Marsden Hartley Museum of Modern Art 10/24/1944 - 1/14/1945
- Forbidden Art in the Third Reich Nierendorf Gallery 10/1/1945 - 4/14/1946
- Centennial Exhibition: American Painting Since the Armory Show 10/1/1961 - 10/31/1961
- [Unidentified exhibition] Arnot Art Gallery 11/11/1961 - 12/11/1961
- Masters of Landscape: East and West Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute 9/15/1963 - 12/1/1963
- Selections from the Rochester Memorial Art Gallery Albany Institute of History & Art 11/15/1964 - 12/20/1964
- American Painting from 1830 Everson Museum of Art 12/3/1965 - 1/16/1966
- Contrasts/Comparisons 9/28/1973 - 10/28/1973
- Twentieth Century American Painting New York State Council on the Arts 9/1/1974 - 1/1/1975
- Selections from the Permanent Collection Summer 1975
- The Era of Abstraction Memorial Art Gallery 1/19/1977 - 2/16/1977
- Twentieth Century American Masters The Art Center 1/14/1978 - 2/26/1978
- Modern Art in Rochester 7/18/1981 - 8/23/1981
- L'art degenere selon Hitler 10/16/2014 - 3/29/2015
- Bauhaus Masters Modern. The Comeback 9/29/2019 - 1/12/2020
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Title: Two Paintings by Feininger Purchased. Article Scope: Article. Memorial Art Gallery. Gallery Notes. Rochester, New York: Memorial Art Gallery, 1935-1995. Volume Number: 12, Issue Number: 3. Issue Date: January-February 1947.
- Rochester Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Handbook. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1961.
- Article Scope: Entry and reproduction. Susan Donahue and James Cahill. Masters of Landscape: East and West. Utica, NY: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1963.
- Article Scope: Entry. Twentieth Century American Masters. South Bend, IN: The Art Center, 1978.
- Article Title: Looted Art. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. MAGazine. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Issue Date: March-April 1999. Page Number: 2-3
- Memorial Art Gallery. ARTiculate. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, 2000--.
- Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Peter Selz. German Expressionist Painting. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1957.
- Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Hans Hess. Lyonel Feininger. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1961.
- Article Scope: Mention. June L. Ness. Lyonel Feininger. New York, NY: Praeger Publishers, 1974.
- Article Scope: Exhibition Checklist. Dorothy Miller, ed. Lyonel Feininger and Marsden Hartley. New York, NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1944.
- 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.
- Article Scope: Exhibition Checklist. Ruth S. Wilkins, ed. American Painting from 1830. Syracuse, NY: Everson Museum of Art, 1965.
- 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.
- Article Scope: Entry. Gemälde und Plastiken Moderner Meister auf Deutschen Museen. Lucerne, Switzerland: Galerie Fischer, 1939.
- Article Scope: Entry and reproduction. Andreas Hüneke. Die faschistische Aktion "Entartete Kunst" 1937 in Halle. Halle, Switzerland: Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg Halle, 1987.
- Article Scope: Mention. Uwe Fleckner. Angriff auf die Avantgarde: Kunst und Kunstpolitik im Nationalsozialismus. Munich, Germany: Oldenbourg Verlag, 2007.
- 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.
- Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Marjorie Searl and Lu Harper. The Memorial Art Gallery: 100 Years. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2013.
- Article Scope: Entry and reproduction. Christian Philipsen, ed. Bauhaus Meister Moderne: Das Comeback. Halle (Saale), Germany: Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, 2019.
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Beschlagnahmeinventar "Entarte Kunst"
Inventory of works seized by the Nazis from German museums in the WWII era as "degenerate art"