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
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
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.