Lehnstedt

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.