Town Hall Square
(Rathausplatz)
1918
Medium
woodcut
Measurements
21.1 × 16.6 cm (image) 33.5 × 44.6 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mrs Olive Hirschfeld, 1971
© Lyonel Feininger/ARS, New York. Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
Gallery location
Late 19th & early 20th Century Paintings & Decorative Arts Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
Born in America to German parents, Lyonel Feininger studied art in Hamburg, Berlin and Paris in the late 1880s to early 1890s. By the mid 1890s he was a prominent illustrator, producing caricatures and cartoons and only took up full-time painting in 1908. After encountering Cubism in 1911, he transformed his style and thereafter employed flattened and fragmented planar forms. Feininger made his first etchings and lithographs in 1906; in 1918 he turned to woodcuts and within three years had produced over two hundred works in the medium. In 1919 he was appointed as the first form master in charge of the printmaking workshop at the Bauhaus school in Weimar.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Weimar, Germany
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Prasse W88
Accession Number
P61-1971
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Subjects (general)
Abstract Art Cityscapes
Subjects (specific)
black-and-white (colours) geometric abstraction lines (artistic concept) simplicity (artistic concept) squares (open spaces) urban areas
Movements
Bauhaus Expressionism