T. Lux Feininger

African Landscape VI. Oryx

   

African Landscape VI. Oryx, (Oryx), (Oryx)
African Landscape VI. Oryx Repro: A22
  • 1963, in Cambridge, MA
  • Oil on canvas
  • 21 × 29 18 inches(53 × 74 cm)

  • Inscr. lower left: L F; verso centered on the canvas middle: T. LUX F. 1963 "African Landscape VI" (ORYX)

    TLF: "African Landscape VI" (oryx), 1963 [201]

    Private collection USA
    Provenance: Around 1990 gift to Mr. Lucas Feininger

  • TLF: "In the course of the next few years, I painted several “African Landscapes”, a total of eight compositions. The first one ... is one of the early pictures wherein the “snake” has become an “animal” - another way of saying that “herpetological cubism” had become “animal cubism”, until in the late 1960s it made way, first, for “figure cubism” and lastly ceased to be any kind of –ism. ...
    These compositions are amongst my strongest color work. They are populated by essentially peaceful, i.e. non-predatory, creatures... I take it that this may have to do with my getting over the worst of my anger at a hypocritical society misled by venal scientists..."
    [205]

  • Themes:  Fauna & Flora Geometricals

Exhibitions

T. Lux Feininger: Von Dessau nach Amerika - Der Weg eines Bauhäuslers. 1998 Hamburg-Altona, Nr. 40.

T. Lux Feininger: Von Dessau nach Amerika - Der Weg eines Bauhäuslers. 1998 Halle (Saale), Nr. 40

T. Lux Feininger - Drawings and Paintings. 1971 Cambridge, MA, Nr. 5. Exhibited in the Rental Gallery

Feininger Retrospective Exhibition. 1967 Hartford, CT, Nr. 4.

Literature

Zwei Welten - Mein Künstlerleben zwischen Bauhaus und Amerika. T. Lux Feininger 2011 Halle (Saale), S./p. 348. Abb./ill.

T. Lux Feininger: Von Dessau nach Amerika - Der Weg eines Bauhäuslers. Wolfgang Büche [Hg./ed.], T. Lux Feininger, Ulrich Luckhardt, Emilie Norris 1998 Halle, S./p. 91, 140, Abb./ill.

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