Cruising Sailing Ships, 2 (Kreuzende Segelschiffe, 2)
Lyonel Feininger
1919
Medium
woodcut in black on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 17.15 × 22.54 cm (6 3/4 × 8 7/8 in.) sheet: 33.34 × 46.36 cm (13 1/8 × 18 1/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1950.1.62
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...