T. Lux Feininger

Brig in a Gale

   

Brigg im Sturm*
Brig in a Gale Repro: WS
  • 1930-1931, in Dessau
  • Oil on canvas
  • 16 18 × 25 38 inches(41 × 64 12 cm)

  • Inscr. upper right: th. LUX; verso centered on the canvas: T. LUX (F.) [later stencil signature]

    TLF: Brig in a Gale, 1930-1931 Dessau [202, Nr. 394]

    Private collection Germany
    Provenance: 1937 – 1989 custody Hermann Klumpp in Quedlinburg; 1990 restitution to the artist [227, pos. 12.]; 2007 ACME Fine Art, Boston, MA, sold

  • TLF 24.10.2007: "...It is a picture completely derived from imagination... [About the clouds] my father wrote me from a trip through the Panama Canal just seventy years ago. He had observed clouds along the southern California coast which made him exclaim that "they were just as if Lux had painted them!"..." [204]

  • Themes:  Ships-Sails

Exhibitions

Welten-Segler - T. Lux Feininger zum 100. Geburtstag, Werke 1929-1942. 2010 Kiel - Kiel, Kunsthalle zu Kiel: 5. Juni - 29. August 2010
- Paderborn, Städtische Galerie am Abdinghof: 20. Februar - 1. Mai 2011
- Quedlinburg, Lyonel-Feininger Galerie: 15. Mai - 28. August 2011
- Hannover, Stiftung Ahlers Pro Arte/Stiftung Kestner Pro Arte: 29. October 2011 - 22. Januar 2012

Literature

Welten-Segler - T. Lux Feininger zum 100. Geburtstag, Werke 1929-1942. Ulrich Luckhardt [Hg./ed.], Peter Thurmann [Hg./ed.], Wolfgang Büche, Dagmar Lott-Reschke 2010 Köln, S./p. 73,120,135. Abb./ill., Luckhardt 42 [1932]

ACME Fine Art and Design Annual. David Cowan 2005 Boston, MA, S./p. 18-19, Abb./ill. [hic 1936]

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