The Gate
Lyonel Feininger
1912
Medium
etching and drypoint in black
Dimensions
plate: 19.9 x 27 cm (7 13/16 x 10 5/8 in.) sheet: 42 x 32.2 cm (16 9/16 x 12 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Joan A. Lees
Accession Number
2002.108.1
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...