id:			136294
accession number:	1960.180
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1960.180
updated:		2019-11-18 10:50:04.724000

Markwippach, 1917. Lyonel Feininger (American, 1871-1956). Oil on canvas; framed: 94 x 114 x 6.4 cm (37 x 44 7/8 x 2 1/2 in.); unframed: 80.6 x 101 cm (31 3/4 x 39 3/4 in.); former: 94 x 114 x 5.5 cm (37 x 44 7/8 x 2 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Lyonel Feininger 1960.180 © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

title:				Markwippach
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creation date:			1917
creation date earliest:		1917
creation date latest:		1917
current location:		225 German Expressionism & Surrealism
creditline:			Gift of Mrs. Lyonel Feininger
copyright:			© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

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culture:	America, 20th century
technique:	oil on canvas
department:	American Painting and Sculpture
collection:	American - Painting
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Lyonel Feininger (American, 1871-1956)  - artist

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measurements: Framed: 94 x 114 x 6.4 cm (37 x 44 7/8 x 2 1/2 in.); Unframed: 80.6 x 101 cm (31 3/4 x 39 3/4 in.); Former: 94 x 114 x 5.5 cm (37 x 44 7/8 x 2 3/16 in.)
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	inscription:	Signed upper left: "Feininger / 17"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty
	opening date:   1960-11-30T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (November 30, 1960-January 1, 1961).

	title:		Lyonel Feininger - From Gelmeroda to Manhattan
	opening date:   1998-07-03T00:00:00
	<i>Lyonel Feininger - From Gelmeroda to Manhattan</i>. Neue Nationalgalerie (organizer) (July 3-October 14, 1998); Haus der Kunst (November 1, 1998-January 24, 1999).

	title:		Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   2006-05-27T00:00:00
	<i>Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* New York:  Curt Valentin Gallery, Lyonel Feininger, cat. no. 4 (date of exhibition unknown).<br>New York:  Buchholz Gallery and Willard Gallery, Lyonel Feininger (March 11-29, 1941), cat. no. 5.<br>Cleveland, OH:  Cleveland Museum of Art, organizer, Lyonel Feininger Memorial Exhibition, 1959-61, American tour:  San Francisco Museum of Art, November 6-December 13, 1959; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, January 6-February 7, 1960; Cleveland Museum of Art, February 18-March 20, 1960; Albright Art Gallery, April 8-May 8, 1960; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, May 19-June 26, 1960, no. 11, repr.<br>Pasadena, CA: The Pasadena Art Museum, Works by Lyonel Feininger (April 26-May 29, 1966), cat. no. 17.  Also traveled to the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art.<br>Los Angeles, CA:  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Cubist Epoch, December 15, 1970-June 7, 1971, repr. p. 145, plate 142.<br>Berlin, Germany: Neue Nationalgalerie.  Munich, Germany: Haus der Kunst "Lyonel Feininger-From Gelmeroda to Manhattan" 7/3/98 - 1/24/99, cat. no. 42, pp. 100-101.

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PROVENANCE

	Mrs. Lyonel Feininger
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Feininger based this painting on his sketches of the small German village of Markwippach, where he frequently hiked through the countryside. The composition weds intense, expressionist color with the flattened, fragmented planes of Cubism to create a dynamic, imaginary view of the village revolving around a church. Painted during World War I, and suggesting a village both destroyed and reconstructed, Feininger conveys the utopian desire of the German Expressionists to remake the world.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 193
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n217

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 244
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n264

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