
(Fir Trees), 1918
Woodcut on oatmeal-tan carbon-copy paper, mounted on paper
4 x 5 1/4 in. (10.2 x 13.3 cm)
Signed lower left: Lyonel Feininger
Inscribed lower left: X
Numbered lower center: 1809
Prasse W 12
(Fir Trees), 1918
Woodcut on oatmeal-tan carbon-copy paper, mounted on paper
4 x 5 1/4 in. (10.2 x 13.3 cm)
Signed lower left: Lyonel Feininger
Inscribed lower left: X
Numbered lower center: 1809
Prasse W 12
(The Hunter's Lodge), 1918
Woodcut on carbon-copy paper
4 3/8 x 5 1/2 in. (11.1 x 14 cm)
Signed lower left: Lyonel Feininger
Inscribed lower left: X
Numbered lower center: 1827
Prasse W 40
(Town Hall [with Assembly in Foreground]), 1918
Woodcut on oatmeal-tan carbon-copy paper, mounted on paper
4 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. (10.8 x 10.8 cm)
Signed lower left: Lyonel Feininger
Inscribed lower left: X
Numbered lower right: 1829
Prasse W 42
(Mountain with a Village), 1918
Woodcut on Japanese laid paper
4 7/16 x 4 1/16 in. (11.3 x 10.3 cm)
Signed lower left: Lyonel Feininger
Inscribed lower left, lower right: X
Numbered lower center: 1830 a
Prasse W 44
(Men, Houses, Lantern, and Pushcart), 1918
Woodcut on oatmeal-tan carbon-copy paper, mounted on paper
3 5/8 x 5 in. (9.2 x 12.7 cm)
Signed lower left: Lyonel Feininger
Inscribed lower left: X
Numbered lower right: 1857
Prasse W 72
(Outbound Steamer Odin), 1918
Woodcut on white tissue paper
3 1/8 x 4 7/16 in. (7.9 x 11.3 cm)
Signed lower left: Lyonel Feininger
Inscribed lower left: X
Numbered lower center: 1860
Prasse W 75
(Wagon Crossing a Bridge), 1918
Woodcut on on paper
3 1/8 x 4 7/16 in. (7.9 x 11.3 cm)
Signed lower left: Lyonel Feininger
Numbered lower center: 1867
Prasse W 82
(Marine with Sun), 1918
Woodcut on European machine-made wove cream paper
5 3/4 x 7 in. (14.6 x 17.8 cm)
Signed lower left: Lyonel Feininger
Inscribed lower left: X
Numbered lower center: 1886
Prasse W 100
(Ships at the Harbor Wharf), 1918
Woodcut on oatmeal-tan carbon-copy paper, mounted on paper
6 7/8 x 9 7/8 in. (17.5 x 25.1 cm)
Signed lower left: Lyonel Feininger
Inscribed lower left: X
Numbered lower center: 18105
Prasse W 116
(Ships in a Harbor), 1918
Woodcut on European machine-made paper
3 3/8 x 2 1/4 in. (8.6 x 5.7 cm)
SIgned lower left: Lyonel Feininger
Inscribed lower left: X Probedruck
Numbered lower center: 1806
Prasse W 117
(Wreck 1), 1919
Woodcut on oatmeal-tan carbon-copy paper
3 5/8 x 5 5/8 in. (9.2 x 14.3 cm)
Signed lower left: Lyonel Feininger
Inscribed lower left: X
Numbered lower center: 1905 a
Prasse W 122
(Marine), 1919
Woodcut on oatmeal-tan carbon-copy paper, mounted on paper
7 1/2 x 9 7/8 in. (19.1 x 25.1 cm)
Signed lower left: Lyonel Feininger
Inscribed lower left: X
Numbered lower center: 1911
Prasse W 128
(Harbor with Windmill and Lighthouse), 1919
Woodcut on Japanese laid paper
3 3/8 x 4 3/4 in. (8.6 x 12.1 cm)
Signed lower left: Feininger
Numbered lower center: 1914 a
Prasse W 133
(Wreck 2), 1919
Woodcut on European handmade-laid cream paper
3 1/8 x 4 5/8 in. (7.9 x 11.8 cm)
Signed lower left: Lyonel Feininger
Inscribed lower left: X
Numbered lower center: 1918a
Prasse W 139
(Angler and Ships), 1918
Woodcut on Japanese laid paper
2 1/2 x 2 5/8 in. (6.4 x 6.7 cm)
Signed lower left: Lyonel Feininger
Inscribed lower left: X
Numbered lower center: 1919
Prasse W 140 I
(Houses), 1919
Woodcut on Japanese laid paper
2 7/8 x 2 1/4 in. (7.3 x 5.7 cm)
Signed lower left: Lyonel Feininger
Numbered lower center: 1933
Prasse W 153
(Three Fir Trees), 1919
Woodcut on Oriental laid paper
3 7/16 x 3 1/4 in. (8.7 x 8.3 cm)
Signed lower left: Feininger
Inscribed lower left: X
Numbered lower center: 1934a
Prasse W 155
(Little Locomotive), 1919
Woodcut on Oreintal laid paper
3 3/4 x 5 1/4 in. (9.5 x 13.3 cm)
Signed lower left: Lyonel Feininger
Inscribed lower left: X
Numbered lower center: 1936
Prasse W 158
Private Collection.
(Three-masted Ship), 1919
Woodcut on Japanese laid paper
2 7/8 x 3 1/8 in. (7.3 x 7.9 cm)
SIgned lower left: Lyonel Feininger
Numbered lower center: 1938
Prasse W 160
(Marine [with Three Sailboats]), 1919
Woodcut on oatmeal-tan carbon-copy paper
4 11/16 x 5 in. (11.9 x 12.7 cm)
Signed lower left: Lyonel Feininger
Inscribed lower left: X
Numbered lower center: 1942
Prasse W 164
(Stranded Ship), 1920
Woodcut on European handmade-laid light-tan paper
4 3/8 x 5 1/2 in. (11.1 x 14 cm)
Signed lower left: Feininger
Inscribed lower left: X
Numbered lower center: 2002
Prasse W 195
(Ships in a Storm), 1920
Woodcut on Oriental laid paper
4 5/8 x 8 in. (11.8 x 20.3 cm)
Inscribed lower left: X
Numbered lower center: 2003
Prasse W 196
(Ships and Sun), 1920
Woodcut on Japanese laid paper
3 1/2 x 4 13/16 in. (8.9 x 12.2 cm)
Numbered lower center: 2009
Prasse W 201 II
(Custom House), 1920
Woodcut on Japanese laid paper
4 7/8 x 6 5/8 in. (12.4 x 16.8 cm)
Signed lower left: Lyonel Feininger
Inscribed lower left: X
Numbered lower center: 2012
Prasse W 204
(Angler with Canal Boat), 1920
Woodcut on oatmeal-tan carbon-copy paper
4 1/2 x 5 3/8 in. (11.4 x 13.7 cm)
Signed lower left: Lyonel Feininger
Inscribed lower left: X
Numbered lower center: 2014
Prasse W 206
(Ships along a Rocky Coast), 1920
Woodcut on Japanese laid paper
4 3/4 x 6 in. (12.1 x 15.2 cm)
Signed lower left: Lyonel Feininger
Inscribed lower left: X
Numbered lower center: 2021
Prasse W 213
(Angler and Steamer), 1920
Woodcut on Mino copy paper
3 1/8 x 4 5/8 in. (7.9 x 11.8 cm)
Signed lower left: Lyonel Feininger
Inscribed lower left: X
Numbered lower center: 2026
Prasse W 218
(Ships and New Moon), 1920
Woodcut on Japanese laid paper
3 1/8 x 4 5/8 in. (7.9 x 11.8 cm)
Signed lower left: Feininger
Numbered lower center: 2042
Prasse W 234
(Ships with Sun and Moon), 1921
Woodcut on Japanese laid paper
2 1/4 x 4 1/2 in. (5.7 x 11.4 cm)
Numbered lower center: 2102
Prasse W 239
(Marine 2 [with Two Figures on the Beach]), 1921
Woodcut on European handmade-laid paper
6 3/8 x 10 in. (16.2 x 25.4 cm)
Signed lower left: Lyonel Feininger
Inscribed lower left: X
Numbered lower center: 2104
Prasse W 241
(Church), 1923
Woodcut on yellow Kozo paper
5 3/8 x 3 5/8 in. (13.7 x 9.2 cm)
Inscribed on block across bottom, in two lines: Bauhaus Ausstellung Juli-Oktober1923
Prasse W 247 I
(Julia Feininger’s Signet), 1923
Woodcut on Chinese laid note paper
5 x 4 11/16 in. (12.7 x 11.9 cm)
Signed lower left: Lyonel Feininher
Numbered lower center:2306
Inscribed lower left: Finger-Druck
Prasse W 252
10 Holzschnitte von Lyonel Feininger (Title Page for Print Portfolio "Ten Woodcuts by Lyonel Feininger), 1925
Woodcut on European mould-made paper
6 1/2 x 7 3/8 in. (16.5 x 18.7 cm)
Signed lower left: Lyonel Feininger
Inscribed lower left: X
Numbered lower right: 2501
Prasse W 257
(Ex Libris Hans Hess), 1926
Woodcut on Japanese laid paper
3 1/2 x 2 3/4 in. (8.9 x 7 cm)
Signed lower left: Lyonel Feininger
Inscribed lower left: X
Numbered lower center: 2601
Not in Prasse
(Church with Star), 1928
Woodcut on Oriental laid paper
2 13/16 x 2 9/16 in. (7.1 x 6.5 cm)
Signed lower left: Lyonel Feininger
Inscribed lower left: X
Numbered lower center: 2804
Prasse W 261
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) first began making woodcuts in the spring of 1918. Skillful, virtuosic, and prolific, he had cut more than 100 woodblocks by the end of that year and created the majority of these works within only three years. The woodcuts, created between 1918 and 1928, reflect varied stylistic elements of the artist's work, from the whimsical to the cubistic and prismatic.
The exhibition also includes Feininger's “nature studies,” sketches en plein air that served as the starting point for the artist’s work. Such motifs from nature recur in Feininger’s œuvre. As T. Lux (1910-2011), his youngest son, wrote: “[They] consisted of the re-casting and re-drawing of a given composition, abandoning it and then taking it up again a day or a year or twenty-five years after, in any and all of the media.”