Object Information

Lyonel Feininger
American, worked in Germany, 1871–1956

Harbor at Neppermin, 1915

Oil on canvas
31 3/4 x 39 1/2 in. (80.6 x 100.3 cm)
Signed and dated, l.r.: "Feininger/15"
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Fulton, 1991.611

© 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Curt Valentin Gallery, September 24–October 13, 1951, Lehmbruck and his Contemporaries, n.p., cat. no. 19, (ill.), as Harbor.

New York, Curt Valentin Gallery, n.p., cat. no. 9, as Harbor.

Publication History

Bernard S. Myers, The German Expressionists: A Generation in Revolt (New York, 1957), pp. 249–50, (ill.), pl. 204, as The Harbor–Der Hafen.

Peter Howard Selz, German Expressionist Painting (Berkeley,1957), pp. 279–80, n.p. (ill), pl. 117, as Harbor.

Hans Hess, Lyonel Feininger (New York, 1961), p. 261 (ill.), fig. 142.

Ownership History

Krefeld Museum, Rhineland, Germany, by 1944 [1944 annotated list of paintings by Mrs. Feininger in Museum of Modern Art Archives]. Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, by 1958 [letter June 9, 1958 from Julia Feininger to Abram Lerner, Curator, Hirshhorn Collection]. Harold Diamond, New York, 1960 [receipt, March 3, 1960, in Hirshhorn Collection Archives]. Martin Nachman, New York [receipt, June 2, 1972, from E. V. Thaw, New York, in curatorial file]. Maurice and Muriel F. Fulton, Glencoe, Ill., June 2, 1972 to December 1991 [receipt, June 2, 1972, from E. V. Thaw, New York, in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute, 1991.