Church and Village (Kirche Und Dorf)
Lyonel Feininger
c. 1910
Medium
woodcut in black on pink wove paper
Dimensions
image (irregular): 8.1 × 11.43 cm (3 3/16 × 4 1/2 in.) sheet: 11.75 × 19.05 cm (4 5/8 × 7 1/2 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
Accession Number
2012.92.201
About the Artist
Lyonel Feininger
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956) was born in New York City to German-American parents who were accomplished musicians. At sixteen he was sent to Hamburg to pursue musical training, but upon arriving in Germany he turned instead to visual art, enrolling in the Allgemeine Gewerbeschule in Hamburg and subsequently at the Königliche Akademie der Künste in Berlin, where he studied painting. He subsequently...