Lyonel Feininger - photo 1
ID 1237612
Lot 308 | Lyonel Feininger
Obergrunstedt I. 1920
Signed and dated 1920 lower left. Inscribed "Ober-Grunstedt I" in the centre. Coloured watercolour over ink auf brownish handmade paper. 24 x 35 cm. Blattgröße: Sheet size: 28.7 x 26.5 cm. Pinholes and browned stains on the lower margin of the sheet. Sheet browned overall. Frame with museum glass, not deframed fot the description (48 x 49 cm).

Besonders aber das Weimarer Land, diese für ihn neue "Alte Welt", faszinierte ihn, seit er hier 1906 zum ersten Mal seine spätere Frau Julia Berg besuchte. Dörfer wie Oberweimar, Vollersroda und Gelmeroda, die er mit dem Fahrrad erkundete, fesselten seine Phantasie, und vor allem die kleine gotische Dorfkirche von Gelmeroda, die er in unzähligen Naturnotizen und Gemälden festhielt, wurde zum Symbol einer romantisch verklärten Märchenwelt, die er in seine Comic-Strips, seine Gemälde und die frühen "Mummenschanzbilder" einfließen ließ, die von seltsam überlängten und historisch gekleideten Menschen bevölkert sind. Etwa seit Anfang der 1920er Jahre erschienen Städte und Dörfer im Lichte einer eingefrorenen Weltentrücktheit und Spiritualität. Sie bezeichnen Feiningers romantische Hinwendung zu einer Welt, die durch Massengesellschaft und Industrialisierung vor dem Untergang stand und nur noch in einer illusionären "Traumstadt" zu finden war. Als Feininger in die USA zurückkehrte, nahm er die imaginären thüringischen Dörfer in seinem Inneren mit, auch als er eine neue Linearität in seiner Malerei entwickelte und sich New Yorker Stadtansichten widmete.

Die Ausstellung "Traumstadt - Lyonel Feininger und seine Dörfer" untersucht Feiningers intensive Auseinandersetzung mit Dörflichkeit und Urbanität im Kontext zunehmender Industrialisierung und Verstädterung zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts.

provenance: Achim Moeller Fine Art Advisory, New York. Private collection, Germany
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