T. Lux Feininger

The Marriage at Coblenz

Die Hochzeit von Koblenz

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1978, in Cambridge, 22 Arlington St.
Oil on board
18 × 24 inches(45 ¹⁄₂ × 60 ¹⁄₂ cm)
Inscr. verso centered on the board: T. LUX Feininger, 1978 "The Marriage at Coblentz"

TLF: "Die Hochzeit von Coblenz", 1979 [sic] [101]

Private collection Germany
Provenance: 2011 estate of the artist
[In 1932 T. Lux Feininger travels to Coblentz (Koblenz) to attend the wedding party of his best friend Clemens Roeseler with Edith Schultz, in Roeseler's hometown. In this painting the artist recalls the celebration, but also the tragic fate his fellow students from the Bauhaus in Dessau had to suffer, they lost their young child Klaus in 1933, and Clemens died in 1934, both from tuberculosis. In that year Lux commemorates the death of his friend with his painting "Burial At Sea (Seebestattung)".]

TLF: "On my way [to Paris] I stopped at Coblentz to be Best Man at Clemens’ and Edith’s wedding. I was a guest in their basement apartment for a few days... Moved by my memories I painted, more than forty years later, the little group of the bridal pair with their two witnesses. To symbolize the catastrophy that befell my friend soon after, I worked into the composition a copy of the servant in H. Bosch’s picture of The Wedding at Cana. He is seen in the foreground pouring wine from one jug into another. The inclusion intends to express dark forebodings connected with the episode." [105]
Themes: Family & Friends