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Lyonel Feininger:
"Silvery Stars" (1924)

Lyonel Feininger: "Silvery Stars" (1924)
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Lyonel Feininger:
"Silvery Stars" (1924)

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Limited, 1,000 exemplars | Collotype cardboard | Solid wood framing | Passe-partout | Glazed | Format 60 x 72 cm

A cubist creation with sky storming cathedrals and silvery stars on a mystical green background. Original: Oil on canvas, private collection.

 

This limited masterpiece of Feininger was made using an exquisite collotype technique. This very rare and over 140-year old technique allows to reproduce genuine halftones, i.e. to create them fully, not as grid dots of the base colors. The precious sheets prove highest artistic sensitivity. The result consists of colors true to the original, cherished by art connoisseurs and doing justice to the delicate colorfulness of Feininger's works.

 

Nine colors on collotype cardboard, limited edition, 1000 exemplars. In exquisite solid wood framing with bevel cut passe-partout, dustproof glazed. Format 60 x 72 cm.

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Lyonel Feininger: "Silvery Stars" (1924)

A cubist creation with sky storming cathedrals and silvery stars on a mystical green background. Original: Oil on canvas, private collection.

 

This limited masterpiece of Feininger was made using an exquisite collotype technique. This very rare and over 140-year old technique allows to reproduce genuine halftones, i.e. to create them fully, not as grid dots of the base colors. The precious sheets prove highest artistic sensitivity. The result consists of colors true to the original, cherished by art connoisseurs and doing justice to the delicate colorfulness of Feininger's works.

 

Nine colors on collotype cardboard, limited edition, 1000 exemplars. In exquisite solid wood framing with bevel cut passe-partout, dustproof glazed. Format 60 x 72 cm.

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(1871-1956)

Lyonel Feininger is known for its Cubism and the art of Robert Delaunay's excited road, cities and ship representations that are made of prismatic broken forms.

The painter and graphic artist was born in 1871 in New York, son of German musicians. At the age of 16 he had joined his parents at a concert tour for the first time in Germany and remained there to study applied arts at Hamburg school and later at the Royal Academy in Berlin. After studying in Paris, he lived and worked for many years in Germany, where he was close to the artist group "Blue Rider" and since 1919 coined as master for the graphic arts workshops, at "Bauhaus" in Weimar, Dessau and Berlin.

Feininger, carried out most clearly in addition to Schlemmer, the fine ideal of the Bauhaus. For him, the starting point is not the human figure, but the architecture, the strict geometric design of the forms, that he witnessed in the Gothic style churches. His studies of German town’s architecture justified his light-flooded, prismatic style that should be a model for many.

Feininger first focused on German urban landscapes and churches. In the time of National Socialism Feininger's works were officially classified as "degenerate", which led him to return to New York City in 1937. There, he create his famous impressions of the architecture of Manhattan and New York City.

The field of graphic arts, that includes artistic representations, which are reproduced by various printing techniques.

Printmaking techniques include woodcuts, copperplate engraving, etching, lithography, serigraphy.

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Serigraphy (Silk-screen printing)

Modern art movement. The term comes from the Latin word cubus = cube. The Cubists were inspired by a statement made by Paul Cézanne accoording to which the reality could be reduced to the cube, cone and ball. In terms of presentation they focused on the various perspectives of the image object.

Masters of Cubism are Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Fernand Léger. Alexander Archipenko is a sculptor among the Cubists.