The Bicycle Race
Lyonel Feininger
1912
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 80.3 × 100.3 cm (31 5/8 × 39 1/2 in.) framed: 86.36 × 106.68 × 7.62 cm (34 × 42 × 3 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Accession Number
1985.64.17
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...