Hanseatic Fleet (Hansaflotte) from Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart (German Printmakers of Our Time)
1918, published 1920
Medium
woodcut on wove paper from a bound volume with 16 lithographs (including cover), eight woodcuts, and eight photomechanical reproductions
Dimensions
book: 33 × 25 × 1.3 cm (13 × 9 13/16 × 1/2 in.)
Classification
Volume
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ingrid Rose in memory of her husband Milton Rose
Accession Number
2014.7.3.17
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...