T. Lux Feininger

Old Engine

Old Engine

Old Engine

Repro: SC

1941, Summer, in New York, 235 East 22nd St.
Oil on canvas
19 × 31 ¹⁄₈ inches(48 × 79 cm)
Inscr. upper right: Lux; verso on back panel: Theodore Lux 1941 (T. Lux Feininger) "Old Engine" (Baldwin 0-8-0 Hill Climber) (flexible Beam Truck)

TLF: "Old Engine", 1941, painted in my parent's apartment during the summer of 1941 [101]

Private collection USA
Provenance: Around 1990 gift to Mr. Charles Feininger
TLF: "At least one of my major pictures dates from these weeks in my father’s studio [during the summer of 1941]: Old Engine. This is the painting that nearly, although not quite, got into the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, being recommended for purchase by Mr. Constable, curator of paintings..." [105]

LIFE Magazine 12.11.1951: "... Old Engine, in an imaginary scene by Lux, is a Baldwin beam-truck type of the 1840s which Lux studied in museums. At right is an old side-wheeler, at left, freighters near city wharves...."

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Themes: Railroad

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Exhibitions

T. Lux Feininger: Von Dessau nach Amerika - Der Weg eines Bauhäuslers. 1998 Hamburg-Altona, Nr. 34.

T. Lux Feininger: Von Dessau nach Amerika - Der Weg eines Bauhäuslers. 1998 Halle (Saale), Nr. 34

Theodore Lux - Paintings and Watercolors. 1962 Putney, VT, Nr. 3.

T. Lux Feininger Retrospective Exhibition - Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors. 1962 Cambridge, MA, Nr. 13.

Famous Families in American Art. 1960 Dallas, TX, Nr. 72.

IV Biennial of the Museum of Modern Art of Sao Paulo - Bauhaus Painters and Theatre. 1957 Sao Paulo, Nr. 23

T. Lux Feininger - Oils, Watercolors, Drawings 1931-1955. 1955 Cambridge, MA, Einladung/Invitation

New Englanders in Art. 1945 Boston, MA, [210]

Literature

Zwei Welten - Mein Künstlerleben zwischen Bauhaus und Amerika. T. Lux Feininger 2011 Halle (Saale), S./p. 342. 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. 73, 140, Abb./ill.

Famous Families in American Art. Barney Delabano 1960 Dallas, TX, Nr. 72.

IV Bienal do museu de arte moderna. Ludwig Grote 1957 Sao Paulo, S./p. 76, Nr. 23

Feininger and Sons - A Family of many Talents excels in Painting, Photography and Music. 1951 New York

New Englanders in Art. J. G. 1945 Boston, MA

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