Lyonel Feininger

Lyonel Feininger 1871 - 1956 Lobbe auf Rügen. 1907. Oil on cardboard. Titled “Lobbe a. Rügen” and dated “Sept. 28, 07” on the reverse. 35 x 49 cm (13.7 x 19.2 in). More works from the Kropatscheck Collection are offered in our Evening Sale on Friday, December 4, 2026; our “Rare Books” auction on Monday, November 23, 2026; and in our Online Sale from January 15 through February 15, 2027. • September 1907 – “Lobbe on Rügen” is one of Feininger’s earliest oil paintings. • Fascination with the Baltic Sea – This work marks the beginning of Feininger’s intensive engagement with the Baltic Sea landscape, which would have a lasting influence on his later work. • On permanent loan to the renowned collection of the Kunsthalle Hamburg from 2020 to 2026. • Exhibited internationally: Germany, USA, Japan. PROVENANCE: From the artist’s estate (Lux Feininger). Fritz Eugen and Hannemarie Kropatscheck Collection, Hamburg (acquired from the above in 1997, Grisebach). EXHIBITION: . EXHIBITION: Lyonel Feininger, New York, Acquavella Galleries and The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Oct. 15–Nov. 20, 1985, cat. no. 11 (with color illustration). (With a label on the reverse, titled “Farmhouse (gray Mood)”) Lyonel Feininger, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Erich Heckel—Künstlerfreundschaften, Schleswig-Holstein State Museum, Gottorf Castle, Schleswig, 1998, cat. no. 5, color illustration on p. 142. Feininger: Frühe Werke und Freunde, Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Sept. 17–Nov. 19, 2006, p. 182 (with color illustration), p. 58. Lyonel Feininger. Retrospective in Japan, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art / Nagoya, Miyagi Prefectural Museum of Art / Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture / Yokosuka Museum of Art, Oct. 2008–March 2009, catalog p. 11, ill. 1. Kunsthalle Hamburg (permanent loan from the Kropatscheck Collection, 2020–2026). LITERATURE: Moeller Archive, Lyonel Feininger: The Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, no. 024: https://www.feiningerproject.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=24 (accessed: Oct. 28, 2026, 4:07 p.m.). Hans Hess, Lyonel Feininger. With a catalogue raisonné by Julia Feininger, Stuttgart 1959, CR No. 19 (with b-and-w ill.). - - Grisebach, Berlin, “Select Works” auction, November 28, 1997, lot 22 (with color ill.). “… I already have entirely different concepts of light and sound—other ways of rendering—but it is almost impossible to depart from the reality to which I am accustomed. What is seen must be internally transformed and crystallized … ” Lyonel Feininger in a letter to Julia Berg, August 29, 1907, quoted from: Ines Burdow, Andreas Hüneke (eds.), Sweetheart, es ist alle Tage Sturm. Lyonel Feininger – Briefe an Julia 1905–1935, Berlin 2021, p. 48 Called up: December 5, 2026 - ca. 17.24 h +/- 20 min.

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