Property from a Private European Collection
Lyonel Feininger
Town Square with Church
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 EUR
We may charge or debit your saved payment method subject to the terms set out in our Conditions of Business for Buyers.
Read more.Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private European Collection
Lyonel Feininger
1871-1956
Town Square with Church
signed Feininger (lower left); dated 22.9.45. (lower right)
watercolour and ink on paper
32,2 x 48,7 cm; 12⅝ x 19⅛ in.
Executed in 1945.
Achim Moeller, Managing Principal of The Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York – Berlin has confirmed the authenticity of this work, which is registered under no. 2071-06-10-26. The work will be included in Lyonel Feininger: The Catalogue Raisonné of Drawings and Watercolors by Achim Moeller and Sebastian Ehlert.
Julia Feininger, Berlin and New York
Dr. Fritz Hesse, Berlin (gift from the above)
Thence by descent to the present owner
The work was a birthday gift by the artist’s wife, Julia Feininger (1880–1970), to Dr. Fritz Hesse (1881–1973). A lawyer, politician, and civic leader, Hesse served as Mayor of Dessau, Saxony-Anhalt, from 1918 onward. He played a pivotal role in securing Dessau as the new home of the Bauhaus in 1925, following the institution’s forced closure in Weimar. Dismissed from office by the National Socialists in 1933, Hesse relocated to Berlin, where he resumed his legal career. In the aftermath of the Second World War, he returned to again as Mayor of Dessau from 1945 to 1946. In 1950, he settled in West Berlin before moving to Munich.