Lyonel Feininger (American, 1871–1956)

Cathedral (Kathedrale) for Program of the State Bauhaus in Weimar (Programm des Staatlichen Bauhauses in Weimar)

Date:

1919

Medium:

Woodcut

Dimensions:

composition: 12 x 7 1/2" (30.5 x 19 cm); sheet (irreg.): 16 1/8 x 12 3/16" (41 x 31 cm)

Paper:

Cream, smooth, laid Japan.

Publisher:

Staatliches Bauhaus, Weimar

Printer:

The artist

Edition:

state I: approx. 6-15 proofs [this ex.] before the edition of an unknown number for the "Program of the State Bauhaus in Weimar"*; state II: approx. 6-15; plus posthumous edition of 100 (plus 2 printer's proofs) published by Associated American Artists, New York, 1964 (*Note: The large edition for the Program was not actually printed from the original woodblock, but from a line block facsimile)

Credit Line:

Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

Copyright:

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Reference:

Prasse W144 I. Rifkind 563.

MoMA Number:

156.1945

Themes:

Primitivism, Religion

Techniques:

Woodcut