Picture "Sailing sketch, on the Baltic coast" (1924) (Unique piece)

Picture "Sailing sketch, on the Baltic coast" (1924) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | dated | pencil on paper | framed | size 30 x 37 cm
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Picture "Sailing sketch, on the Baltic coast" (1924) (Unique piece)
In 1924, Lyonel Feininger founded the exhibition group "Die Blauen Vier" (The Blue Four) together with Alexej von Jawlensky, Paul Klee, and Wassily Kandinsky. That same year, he created the drawing "Sailing Ketch, on the Baltic Coast," depicting a sailing ship - specifically a classic ketch - on a tranquil Baltic Sea.
This was also the year of Feininger’s first summer in the small seaside resort of Deep on the Pomeranian Baltic coast, a place he would return to regularly over the next twelve years to paint.
Feininger's sketches from this period, mostly executed in pencil, are characterised by his quick and spontaneous capture of what he saw and experienced directly in nature. He often sketched the boundless expanse of the sea with a solitary, quietly sailing ship - just as in the work offered here.
Pencil on paper, dated 1924. With certificate of authenticity from Marlborough Fine Art. Motif size/sheet size 14 x 21.9 cm. Size in frame 30 x 37 cm as shown.
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About Lyonel Feininger
1871-1956
Lyonel Feininger is known for his depictions of streets, cities and ships, which are composed of prismatically broken forms and inspired by Cubism and the art of Robert Delaunay.
The painter and graphic artist was born in New York in 1871 as the son of German musicians. He first came to Germany at the age of 16 for a concert tour of his parents and stayed there to study at the Hamburg School of Applied Arts and later at the Royal Prussian Academy in Berlin. After a study visit to Paris, he continued living and working for many years in Germany, where he was close to the "Blauer Reiter" artists' group. Starting in 1919, he made his mark as a master for the graphic workshops of "Bauhaus" in Weimar, Dessau and Berlin.
Feininger, along with Schlemmer, most explicitly realised the Bauhaus ideal of order. For him, the starting point is not the human figure but architecture, the strict geometric structure of forms that he observed in Gothic churches. His studies of the architecture of small German towns established his light-flooded, prismatic style, which was to become a model for many artists.
Feininger first devoted himself to German townscapes and churches. During the National Socialist era, the Nazi Party officially declared Feininger’s work to be "degenerate", which forced him to return to New York in 1937. There he created his famous impressions of the architecture of Manhattan and New York.
A one-of-a-kind or unique piece is a work of art that has been personally created by the artist. It exists only once due to the type of production (oil painting, watercolours, drawing, etc.).
In addition to the classic unique pieces, there exist the so-called "serial unique pieces". They present a series of works with the same colour, motif and technique, manually prepared by the same artist. The serial unique pieces are rooted in "serial art", a type of modern art, that aims to create an aesthetic effect through series, repetitions and variations of the same objects or themes or a system of constant and variable elements or principles.
In the history of arts, the starting point of this trend was the work "Les Meules" (1890/1891) by Claude Monet, in which for the first time a series was created that went beyond a mere group of works. The other artists, who addressed to the serial art, include Claude Monet, Piet Mondrian and above all Gerhard Richter.