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Lehnstedt

Lyonel Charles Feininger American

1917

Not on view

Here, Feininger used crystalline and refracted forms to depict the village church of Lehnstedt, Germany, and its wooded environs. His style demonstrates his embrace of Cubism and its rationality and abstraction of form and space, which he encountered while studying art in Paris. "Cubism is a synthesis," the painter explained, "but may be degraded into mechanism. . . . My ‘[C]ubism’ . . . is visionary, not physical." Feininger most famously painted architectural subjects that resonated with metaphysical meaning, especially churches.

Lehnstedt, Lyonel Charles Feininger (American, New York 1871–1956 New York), Oil on canvas — This image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.

Title: Lehnstedt

Artist: Lyonel Charles Feininger (American, New York 1871–1956 New York)

Date: 1917

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 31 × 39 1/2 in. (78.7 × 100.3 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Lent by Private collection, New York

Accession Number: L.2014.64.1

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