Spire of Gelmeroda
1944
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View on museum website →Medium
pen and black ink with brown and yellow wash on laid paper
Dimensions
overall: 48.3 x 35.5 cm (19 x 14 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Frank and Jeannette Eyerly
Accession Number
1964.10.1
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...