T. Lux Feininger

Skipper's Daughter

   
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Skipper's Daughter
Skipper's Daughter Repro: WS
  • 1932-1933, in Paris, Montparnasse
  • Oil on canvas
  • 18 1⁄8 × 25 5⁄8 inches(46 × 65 cm)

  • Inscr. lower left: LUX

    TLF: "Skipper's Daughter", 1933, first painting [begun] in Paris [101]; "Skipper's Daughter", 1933 Paris [102, Nr. 85]. "Die Schifferstochter" [107, Nr. 444]

    Private collection Germany
    Provenance: 1957 sold as a "grant-in-aid" [102] to Mrs. Julia Feininger; 1970 returned to the artist; 1996 studio sale; around 2012 resold

  • TLF: "There is the physical fact of my creating something new, in a painting begun late in 1932, upon the finishing of which I departed on a brief holiday visit to the Röselers in Coblentz. – The painting, entitled The Skipper’s Daughter was an exciting adventure from the very beginning. I recall that, in this composition, I set myself deliberately to the task of creating an “ideal woman”. … The “daughter” is no nightclub belle but a healthy young woman and vigorous worker with “her sea legs on”. The helmsman is placed through the compositional perspective in a position appropriate towards a Goddess: at her feet. Such a seaman might even be worthy to wed the daughter of the skipper, but my intuition suggests that the real marriage is between the steersman and his vocation – symbolized by the whitecaps raised by the stiff breeze, the [heeling] of the vessel bearing man and woman onward, and the shooting past like a flash, of a black-headed seabird.
    Perhaps I am over-bold to see in this first picture a sign of enlightenment. … But since … a work of art contains and yields up, more meaning than the artist was aware of putting into it, then “enlightenment” there may have been, although perception of it was delayed."     [105]

    TLF: "Re Skipper's Daughter the following can be noted. This title is a game with words, whilst the seafarer from the days of the sailing ships called the whitecaps that formed with an upcoming wind "skipper's daughters". The helmsman is anything but a blood relative of the "daughter", but genealogically entitled to marry her if he is lucky. It is the first painting I painted in Paris, and it seems to suggest a certain symbolism to me. [104]

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  • Themes:  Ships-Sails,  Harbor & Sailors

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Exhibitions

Väter & Söhne - Konfrontation und Gleichklang: Marc, Kanoldt, Jawlensky, Feininger, Geiger. 2016 Murnau

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

Seestücke - Von Max Beckmann bis Gerhard Richter. 2007 Hamburg, Nr. 54

Feininger - Vater und Söhne. 2001 Karlsruhe, Nr. 43

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

T. Lux Feininger: Von Dessau nach Amerika - Der Weg eines Bauhäuslers. 1998 Halle (Saale), Nr. 15 [1932]

Theodor Lux - Erste Kollektiv-Ausstellung von Gemälden. 1935 Berlin, Nr. 29.

Literature

Väter & Söhne - Konfrontation und Gleichklang: Marc, Kanoldt, Jawlensky, Feininger, Geiger. Björn Egging, Brigitte Roßbeck,  u.a./et al 2016 Murnau, S./p. 117

Segel aufgebläht zu Federkissen. Manfred Stienecke 2011 Bielefeld, Abb./ill.

Welten-Segler in der Städtischen Galerie. 2011 Bielefeld, Abb./ill.

Nimm mich mit, Kapitän. Andreas Berger 2011 Braunschweig, Abb./ill.

Entdeckung eines Unbekannten. Gerd Alpermann 2011 Halle (Saale), Abb./Ill.

Zwei Welten - Mein Künstlerleben zwischen Bauhaus und Amerika. T. Lux Feininger 2011 Halle (Saale), S./p. 331. Abb./ill. [hic: 1932]

Meeresleuchten. Armin Schreiber 2010 Hamburg, S./p. 53, Abb./ill.

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. 85, 120, 138. Abb./ill., Luckhardt 59

Magnet - Noch mehr Meer.  PUT 2007 Hamburg, Abb./ill.

Seestücke - Von Max Beckmann bis Gerhard Richter. Martin Faass [Hg./ed.], Hubertus Gaßner [Hg./ed.], Felix Krämer [Hg./ed.], Regine Gerhardt,  u.a./et al 2007 Hamburg, S./p. 77, 204. Abb./ill.

In naher Zukunft liegt der Schwerpunkt auf der Gegenwart. Julika Pohle 2006 Hamburg, Abb./ill.

Feininger - Eine Künstlerfamilie. Ursula Merkel [Hg./ed.], Wolfgang Büche, T. Lux Feininger,  u.a./et al 2001 Karlsruhe, S./p. 83, 160, Abb./ill. [1932]

Von Dessau nach Amerika. Steffen Haubner 1998 Hamburg, 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. 43, 139, Abb./ill. [hic: 1932]

Lagerbuch Ölgemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen. 1935 Berlin, S./p. 203, Nr. 444

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