Hafen (Port)

Lyonel Feininger, artist

1871–1956

Hafen (Port), 1899

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: woodcut; Japanese paper

Dimensions:
Plate Mark/Block Dimensions (Height x Width): block 162 x 219 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 241 x 305 mm
Plate Mark/Block Dimensions (Height x Width): 6 3/8 x 8 5/8 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 9 1/2 x 12 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 14 x 19 in

Credit line: Gift of Albert Bloch

Accession number: 1939.0023

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Archive Label 2003:
Although Lyonel Feininger was born in New York, he spent all his formative years in Germany. After trips to Paris and an introduction to cubism, he became involved with Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter art associations. Feininger remained in Germany throughout World War I, and in 1919, joined Walter Gropius in establishing the Bauhaus in Weimar, heading its printmaking studio. His teaching, printmaking, and painting in the Bauhaus earned Feininger an international reputation and a solo exhibition in New York at the Museum of Modern Art in 1929.

With the forced closing of the Bauhaus in 1933 and the branding of his art as “degenerate,” the artist increasingly focused on the isolated image of a single ship tossed about helplessly in ocean waves, reflecting his own experiences of living in pre-war Germany. In 1937 Feininger moved to California and then settled permanently in New York