Strolling Ladies with Gentlemen Admirers
Lyonel Feininger
1910
Medium
pen and black ink on cream laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 31.5 × 24.1 cm (12 3/8 × 9 1/2 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund
Accession Number
2016.101.2
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...