Sale: 606 / Evening Sale, June 12. 2026 in Munich → Lot 126000123
Raumbeispiel
126000123
Lyonel Feininger
Hulks, 1923.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 400,000 - 600,000
$ 460,000 - 690,000
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
126000123
Lyonel Feininger
Hulks, 1923.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 400,000 - 600,000
$ 460,000 - 690,000
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Lyonel Feininger
1871 - 1956
Hulks. 1923.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the upper left. Titled, dated, and once more signed on the reverse of the stretcher. 39.3 x 53.4 cm (15.4 x 21 in).
[AR].
• An exceptionally dynamic and atmospheric seascape by the great Bauhaus master.
• Boasting an impressive exhibition history, both during the artist's lifetime and posthumously.
• A painterly manifestation of light and matter: an ethereal inner glow meets the geometric form of the ship's hull.
• A play of opposites: horizontal and vertical, movement and stillness, spherical lightness and strong contrasts.
• From the early Bauhaus period in Weimar, one year before the founding of the “Blue Four” (Feininger, Kandinsky, Klee, Jawlensky).
• From the artist’s estate, for a long time in the possession of the Feininger family.
• Offered on the international auction market for the first time.
Achim Moeller, Director of the Lyonel Feininger Project, New York–Berlin, has confirmed the authenticity of this work. It is registered in the archive of the Lyonel Feininger Project under the number 1927-05-17-24. The painting is mentioned in 'Lyonel Feininger: The Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings' by Achim Moeller under the number 243. The work is accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
Additional information was provided by Achim Moeller, The Lyonel Feininger Project, New York - Berlin.
PROVENANCE: Estate of the artist, New York.
Andreas Feininger, New York (inherited)
Private collection (inherited).
EXHIBITION: Lyonel Feininger, Galerie Dr. Goldschmidt - Dr. Wallerstein, Berlin, November 22, 1925 - undated, cat. no. 8.
Lyonel Feininger und O. Th. W. Stein, Kunsthütte Chemnitz, Chemnitz, October 17–November 14, 1926, cat. no. 6.
Lyonel Feininger, Erich Heckel: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen. Ewald Mataré: Plastik, Gesellschaft der Kunstfreunde Breslau, Silesian Museum of Fine Arts (“Altes Generalkommando”), Wroclaw, Jan. 20–Feb. 20, 1929, cat. no. 17, p. 2.
Bauhaus Dessau: J. Albers, L. Feininger, W. Kandinsky, P. Klee, O. Schlemmer, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, April 20–May 9, 1929, cat. no. 24.
Special Exhibition: The Blue Four: Lyonel Feininger, A. Jawlensky, W. Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Galerie Ferdinand Möller, October 3–October 10, 1929 – undated, cat. no. 1, p. 7.
Special Exhibition: Lyonel Feininger, Kunstverein für Böhmen, Prague, December 28, 1929–January 19, 1930, cat. no. 16, p. 3.
Lyonel Feininger, Museum Folkwang, Essen, June 21–August 23, 1931 (checklist).
Lyonel Feininger, Nationalgalerie, Kronprinzenpalais, Berlin, September 19, 1931–January 31, 1932, cat. no. 78, p. 28 (with b/w ill.), and p. 30.
Lyonel Feininger, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, Jan. 28–Mar. 6, 1932, cat. no. 30, n.p. (with b/w ill.).
The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Museum of Art, October 1933, cat. no. 3.
Exhibition Lyonel Feininger, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, June 1–August 22, 1936, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Aug. 22–Sept. 15, 1936, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Oct. 5, 1936 – undated, cat. no. 9 (verso with label “Mills College Art Gallery”).
Lyonel Feininger: Exhibition of Oil, Watercolor Paintings, and Prints in the Faulkner Memorial Art Gallery, Faulkner Memorial Art Gallery, Free Public Library, Santa Barbara, Jan. 5–17, 1937, cat. no. 5.
Die Maler am Bauhaus (organized by the Bavarian State Painting Collections), Haus der Kunst, Munich, Munich, May–June 1950; Berlin, Die Maler am Bauhaus (on the occasion of the 1950 Berlin Industrial Exhibition at Charlottenburg Palace), Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin, Sept. 29–Oct. 29, 1950, cat. no. 272 (supplementary list; exhibited only in Berlin).
Die Blaue Vier: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Klee in der Neuen Welt, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Dec. 5, 1997–March 1, 1998, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, March 28–June 28, 1998, cat. no. 9, p. 172 (illustrated in color) and p. 337 (with an exhibition label on the reverse).
Lyonel Feininger and the City at the Edge / German Expressionism and Masters of the Bauhaus, Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York, Fall 2001–February 2002, cat. no. 9 (checklist).
20th Century European and American Masters: From Arp, Beckmann, and Feininger to Tobey, Guston, and Rauschenberg, Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York, undated – April 24, 2004, cat. no. 17 (checklist).
LITERATURE: Achim Moeller, “Hulks / (Ship Hulls), 1923 (Moeller 243).” Lyonel Feininger: The Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, http://www.feiningerproject.org/catalogue/ (accessed April 9, 2024), (with color ill.).
Hans Hess, Lyonel Feininger. With a catalogue raisonné by Julia Feininger, Stuttgart 1959, CR no. 229 (illustrated in b/w on p. 269).
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Erwin Redslob, Het werk van Lyonel Feininger, Wendingen 10/7 (1929), pp. 2–18 and p. 5 (Scheepjes).
Werner Timm, Lyonel Feininger: Erlebnis und Vision. Die Reisen an die Ostsee 1892–1935, Regensburg 1992, p. 192.
Jörn Grabowski, Lyonel Feininger und die Sammlung der Moderne im Kronprinzenpalais 1919–1937, in: Roland März (ed.), Lyonel Feininger: Von Gelmeroda nach Manhattan, Berlin 1998, pp. 329–335, p. 331 (dated here to 1924).
Hans Schulz-Vanselow, Lyonel Feininger und Pommern, Kiel 1999, p. 316.
1871 - 1956
Hulks. 1923.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the upper left. Titled, dated, and once more signed on the reverse of the stretcher. 39.3 x 53.4 cm (15.4 x 21 in).
[AR].
• An exceptionally dynamic and atmospheric seascape by the great Bauhaus master.
• Boasting an impressive exhibition history, both during the artist's lifetime and posthumously.
• A painterly manifestation of light and matter: an ethereal inner glow meets the geometric form of the ship's hull.
• A play of opposites: horizontal and vertical, movement and stillness, spherical lightness and strong contrasts.
• From the early Bauhaus period in Weimar, one year before the founding of the “Blue Four” (Feininger, Kandinsky, Klee, Jawlensky).
• From the artist’s estate, for a long time in the possession of the Feininger family.
• Offered on the international auction market for the first time.
Achim Moeller, Director of the Lyonel Feininger Project, New York–Berlin, has confirmed the authenticity of this work. It is registered in the archive of the Lyonel Feininger Project under the number 1927-05-17-24. The painting is mentioned in 'Lyonel Feininger: The Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings' by Achim Moeller under the number 243. The work is accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
Additional information was provided by Achim Moeller, The Lyonel Feininger Project, New York - Berlin.
PROVENANCE: Estate of the artist, New York.
Andreas Feininger, New York (inherited)
Private collection (inherited).
EXHIBITION: Lyonel Feininger, Galerie Dr. Goldschmidt - Dr. Wallerstein, Berlin, November 22, 1925 - undated, cat. no. 8.
Lyonel Feininger und O. Th. W. Stein, Kunsthütte Chemnitz, Chemnitz, October 17–November 14, 1926, cat. no. 6.
Lyonel Feininger, Erich Heckel: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen. Ewald Mataré: Plastik, Gesellschaft der Kunstfreunde Breslau, Silesian Museum of Fine Arts (“Altes Generalkommando”), Wroclaw, Jan. 20–Feb. 20, 1929, cat. no. 17, p. 2.
Bauhaus Dessau: J. Albers, L. Feininger, W. Kandinsky, P. Klee, O. Schlemmer, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, April 20–May 9, 1929, cat. no. 24.
Special Exhibition: The Blue Four: Lyonel Feininger, A. Jawlensky, W. Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Galerie Ferdinand Möller, October 3–October 10, 1929 – undated, cat. no. 1, p. 7.
Special Exhibition: Lyonel Feininger, Kunstverein für Böhmen, Prague, December 28, 1929–January 19, 1930, cat. no. 16, p. 3.
Lyonel Feininger, Museum Folkwang, Essen, June 21–August 23, 1931 (checklist).
Lyonel Feininger, Nationalgalerie, Kronprinzenpalais, Berlin, September 19, 1931–January 31, 1932, cat. no. 78, p. 28 (with b/w ill.), and p. 30.
Lyonel Feininger, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, Jan. 28–Mar. 6, 1932, cat. no. 30, n.p. (with b/w ill.).
The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Museum of Art, October 1933, cat. no. 3.
Exhibition Lyonel Feininger, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, June 1–August 22, 1936, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Aug. 22–Sept. 15, 1936, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Oct. 5, 1936 – undated, cat. no. 9 (verso with label “Mills College Art Gallery”).
Lyonel Feininger: Exhibition of Oil, Watercolor Paintings, and Prints in the Faulkner Memorial Art Gallery, Faulkner Memorial Art Gallery, Free Public Library, Santa Barbara, Jan. 5–17, 1937, cat. no. 5.
Die Maler am Bauhaus (organized by the Bavarian State Painting Collections), Haus der Kunst, Munich, Munich, May–June 1950; Berlin, Die Maler am Bauhaus (on the occasion of the 1950 Berlin Industrial Exhibition at Charlottenburg Palace), Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin, Sept. 29–Oct. 29, 1950, cat. no. 272 (supplementary list; exhibited only in Berlin).
Die Blaue Vier: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Klee in der Neuen Welt, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Dec. 5, 1997–March 1, 1998, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, March 28–June 28, 1998, cat. no. 9, p. 172 (illustrated in color) and p. 337 (with an exhibition label on the reverse).
Lyonel Feininger and the City at the Edge / German Expressionism and Masters of the Bauhaus, Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York, Fall 2001–February 2002, cat. no. 9 (checklist).
20th Century European and American Masters: From Arp, Beckmann, and Feininger to Tobey, Guston, and Rauschenberg, Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York, undated – April 24, 2004, cat. no. 17 (checklist).
LITERATURE: Achim Moeller, “Hulks / (Ship Hulls), 1923 (Moeller 243).” Lyonel Feininger: The Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, http://www.feiningerproject.org/catalogue/ (accessed April 9, 2024), (with color ill.).
Hans Hess, Lyonel Feininger. With a catalogue raisonné by Julia Feininger, Stuttgart 1959, CR no. 229 (illustrated in b/w on p. 269).
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Erwin Redslob, Het werk van Lyonel Feininger, Wendingen 10/7 (1929), pp. 2–18 and p. 5 (Scheepjes).
Werner Timm, Lyonel Feininger: Erlebnis und Vision. Die Reisen an die Ostsee 1892–1935, Regensburg 1992, p. 192.
Jörn Grabowski, Lyonel Feininger und die Sammlung der Moderne im Kronprinzenpalais 1919–1937, in: Roland März (ed.), Lyonel Feininger: Von Gelmeroda nach Manhattan, Berlin 1998, pp. 329–335, p. 331 (dated here to 1924).
Hans Schulz-Vanselow, Lyonel Feininger und Pommern, Kiel 1999, p. 316.
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