Gelmeroda III
About this artwork
Feininger first drew the church at Gelmeroda, a small village near Weimar, in 1906. It became a recurrent motif in his work, featuring in numerous drawings and prints and in thirteen oil paintings ranging in date from 1913 to 1936. Although the church carried a symbolic meaning in Feininger's work, its architectural form also provided the ideal motif for the artist's interest in geometric compositions. This is the third of three Gelmeroda paintings, also dating from 1913. It is a more balanced composition than the first two paintings, which feature a leaning spire cut by sharp Cubist planes.
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title:Gelmeroda III
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date created:1913
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:100.50 x 80.00 cm; Framed: 116.70 x 93.30 x 8.80 cm / 21.00 kg
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credit line:Purchased 1985
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accession number:GMA 2951
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
Lyonel Feininger
Lyonel Feininger
Feininger was born in New York to a German-American family. He moved to Germany in 1887, with the intention of studying music, but instead studied art in Hamburg, Berlin and Paris until 1893. At the turn of the century, Feininger was one of Germany's leading comic cartoonists and went on to produce...