Troistedt (Lehnstedt)
1919
Medium
woodcut in black on laid paper
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1964.8.765
Art Historical Context
Lyonel Feininger's *Troistedt (Lehnstedt)*, a striking 1919 woodcut in black on laid paper, the artist's fascination with crystalline forms and fragmented architecture. Born in New York but deeply immersed in Germany's art scene, Feininger a key figure in Expressionism and a founding master at the Bauhaus, where he began teaching that very year. This print, housed in the National Gallery of's Rosenwald Collection, the post-World War I era's introspective energy, blending Cubist geometry with a luminous, prismatic quality unique to his vision. Woodcuts like this one showcase Feininger's master...
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...