Lyonel Feininger: The Early Years, 1890-1906

LYONEL FEININGER

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LYO N E L FE I N I N G E R

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BE F O RE THE PA I NTE R : E ARLY S TUDIES FROM NATURE S EB A S T I A N EH L ERT

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1 Feininger in Paris c. 1906 2 Julia in Paris c. 1906 3-4 Feininger with Frederick Strothmann c. 1896 5 Feininger in Berlin 1894 Photo: Loescher & Petsch, Kรถnigl. Hof-Photographen 6 Portrait of Lyonel Feininger 1896

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28 Baabe 1904 Pencil and crayon heightened with white on card 7 × 9 1⁄8 in. (17.8 × 24 cm) Titled and dated lower right: Baabe. d. 28.

VIII. 04 29 (Two Boats and Anchor) c. 1901–04 Pencil, charcoal, and crayon heightened with white on paper 10 × 13 in. (25.5 × 33.2 cm) 30 Ribnitz 1905 Crayon on paper 4 × 4 ¼ in. (10.5 × 11.8 cm) Titled and dated lower right: Ribnitz d. 16.

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Moeller Fine Art, founded in 1972, is a leading international gallery specializing in works of art from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries.

In 1984 the gallery moved from London to New York, and today occupies premises adjacent to the Hotel Plaza Athenée on East 64th Street. The gallery organizes several curated exhibitions each year and participates in art fairs worldwide.

Achim Moeller, the gallery’s founder, brings fifty years’ experience in the field and is a recognized authority on French Impressionism, German Expressionism, the Masters of the Bauhaus, Dada, and Surrealism. He has helped to build private and public collections that are coherent in concept, period, and quality, including the collection of the Hon. John C. Whitehead.

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The Lyonel Feininger Project LLC

Moeller Art Advisory brings together five decades

Achim Moeller is preparing the three-volume

of experience, relationships, and scholarship to help

catalogue raisonné of paintings by Lyonel Feininger

collectors make informed decisions about individual

(1871–1956) and oversees the Lyonel Feininger

works of art and their collections as a whole.

Project, which provides certificates of authenticity, exhibition consultation, and research related

Specialized services include:

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– Acquisition and sale of paintings, drawings,

and with new premises at Friedrichstrasse 17, Berlin,

and sculpture by Impressionist, Modern, and

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– Confidential purchase of works of art from individuals and estates.

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Achim Moeller oversees the Mark Tobey Project,

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– Development of comparative market research

(1890–1976). The Project draws on the extensive

and detailed price analysis, allowing accurate

archives of Paul Cummings, longtime scholar of the

assessment of value.

artist’s work, which have been actively maintained

– Authentication of works by late-nineteenth

by Achim Moeller for many years.

and twentieth-century artists.

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Frontispiece Fritzie, Paris, 1892 / 1893 Pencil on paper 15 1⁄8 × 3 ¼ in. (13.6 × 9.3 cm) Titled, inscribed, and dated lower right: “Fritzie” Paris, 1892-3 Private Collection The drawing depicts Feininger’s friend the illustrator Frederick (Fritz) Strothmann (1872–1958).

Title page Portrait of Lyonel Feininger, 1894 Photo: Loescher & Petsch, Königliche Hof-Photgraphen, Berlin The Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York – Berlin Page 74 Feininger in his Paris studio, 1906–1907 Photograph Credits All drawings by Lyonel Feininger photographed by Noel Allum for Moeller Fine Art, New York All photographs of Lyonel Feininger, The Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York – Berlin Editor Emily Radin Walter Translation from the German Russell Stockman Design Philippe Apeloig assisted by Léo Grunstein and Yannick James Printing and photo engraving Meridian Printing East Greenwich, Rhode Island Typeface: Foundry Sterling Paper: Astrolite Smooth text 100 lb © 2015 Moeller Fine Art Ltd., New York All rights reserved. Private publication.

All works are for sale, subject to availability.

ISBN 978-0-692-39629-2 Printed in the United States

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