T. Lux Feininger

Winterdream

   

Winterdream
Winterdream Repro: GE
  • 1937, in New York, 511 East 85th St.
  • Oil on canvas
  • 19 18 × 20 18 inches(48 12 × 51 cm)

  • Inscr. lower right: LUX; verso discarded painting: "Danish Brig "Agnes", 1937, on the upper stretcher frame: Th. LUX 1937 WINTERDREAM

    TLF: "Winterdream", 1937 [101]; "Winterdream", 1938 [sic] New York [102, Nr. 345]. "Wintertraum" [109, Nr. 23]

    Private collection Germany
    Provenance: Since approx. 1940 in possession and apartment of Lyonel and Julia Feininger, New York; 1966 returned to the artist; 1998 studio sale

  • TLF: "I was very amused to read about your discovery of the reverse of your "Wintertraum". All in all it has happened three times [sic] that I had to turn the canvas to be able to continue to work, always for the same reason, that it was impossible to raise the funds to buy a new canvas."* [104, G. Bruhn, October 29, 1998]

    TLF: "A Selfportrait, in front of a fireplace he is dreaming of women and ships!"* [104, G. Bruhn, December 12, 2009]

    [See below: Related artworks]

  • Themes:  Self

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

T. Lux Feininger - Ein Malerleben im 20. Jahrhundert. 2005 Halle (Saale), Nr. 2.

Feininger - Vater und Söhne. 2001 Karlsruhe, Nr. 47

T. Lux Feininger: Von Dessau nach Amerika - Der Weg eines Bauhäuslers. 1998 Hamburg-Altona, Nr. 23.

T. Lux Feininger: Von Dessau nach Amerika - Der Weg eines Bauhäuslers. 1998 Halle (Saale), Nr. 23

Literature

Die Maler und das Meer / The Painters and the Sea - Lyonel & Lux Feininger. Detlef Jens 2013 Flensburg, S./p. 80. Abb./ill.

Zwei Welten - Mein Künstlerleben zwischen Bauhaus und Amerika. T. Lux Feininger 2011 Halle (Saale), S./p. 337. 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. 105, 120. Abb./ill.

Feininger - Eine Künstlerfamilie. Ursula Merkel [Hg./ed.], Wolfgang Büche, T. Lux Feininger,  u.a./et al 2001 Karlsruhe, S./p. 87, 161, 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. 13, 139, Abb./ill.

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