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Style: Bauhaus
Joost Schmidt-Bauhaus Exhibition-1995- Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Schmidt's 1923 poster for the Bauhaus Exhibition is celebrated for its innovative use of geometric forms and typographic elements, reflecting the school's avant-garde approach to des...
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Mid-20th Century Bauhaus Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
Mid-Century Shapes IV, White and Blue Abstract Floating Shapes, Unique Cyanotype
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted unique cyanotype that takes its inspiration from the mid-century modern shapes.
It's made by layering paper cutouts and different exposures using uv-...
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2010s Bauhaus Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photographic Film, Emulsion, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, Monotype, P...
'Masken (Masks)' — German Expressionism, Bauhaus
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Masken (Masks)' also 'Carnival Masks', woodcut, 1920, proofs only. Prasse W193. Signed and titled in pencil. Annotated '1973', the artist’s inventory number. A fin...
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1920s Bauhaus Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
1969 Woodcut, Titled "Andalusian Sky" by Bauhaus Master Werner Drewes
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1969 woodcut, titled "Andalusian Sky" by Bauhaus Master Werner Drewes. Signed and numbered in pencil. Edition: 21/XXX. An impression of this print is in the collection of the Sm...
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1960s Bauhaus Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
'Da - Da I' — German Expressionism, Rare
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Da-Da I' also titled by the artist 'Der Abgott' (The Idol), woodcut, 1918, a proof impression. Prasse W91. Signed in pencil and annotated '1876', the artist’s inv...
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1920s Bauhaus Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Sale and Marketing Kiosk for P Cigarettes (Bauhaus) (20% OFF + Free Shipping)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Herbert Bayer
Sale and Marketing Kiosk for P Cigarettes (Verkauf- und Werbekiosk, Zigarettenmarke P ), 1924
Offset Lithograph
Year: 1994
Size: 33.2 × 23.2 inches
Publisher: Bauhaus A...
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1920s Bauhaus Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Circle and Square
Located in Boston, MA
Werner Drewes. Circle and Square, 1980. Rose 386. Number 1 in an edition of 20. Signed and dated in pencil lower right margin: "Drewes -80-"; numbered in pencil lower left margin: "N...
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20th Century Bauhaus Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
'Church with Star' – Artist's Personal Letterhead, Bauhaus Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Church with Star (Kirche mit Stern)', woodcut, 1936, one of a small but unknown number of letterhead proofs; Prasse W265. Annotated 'W 265' (Feininger catalogue number) and inventory no. '2808' in pencil, in the bottom right sheet corner. A fine impression, on cream, laid letterhead stock; hinge remains on the left and right top sheet edges, verso, in excellent condition. Very scarce.
Image size 2 3/8 x 2 3/8 inches; sheet size 10 1/16 x 7 1/16 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was born in New York City into a musical family—his father was a violinist and composer, his mother was a singer and pianist. He studied violin with his father, and by the age of 12, he was performing in public, but he also drew incessantly, most notably the steamboats and sailing ships on the Hudson and East Rivers, and the landscape around Sharon, Conn., where he spent time on a farm owned by a family friend. At the age of 16 he left New York to study music and art in Germany, from where his parents emigrated. Drawn more to the visual arts, he attended schools in Hamburg, Berlin, and Paris from 1887 to 1892.
After completing his studies, Feininger began his artistic career as a cartoonist and illustrator, his originality leading him to great success. In 1906, after working for a dozen years in Germany, he was offered a job as a cartoonist at the Chicago Tribune, the largest circulation newspaper in the Midwest. He worked there for a year, inventing what became the standard design for the comic strip: in the words of John Carlin, “an overall pattern. . . that allowed the page to be read both as a series of elements one after the other, like language and as a group of juxtaposed images, like visual art.” His originality did not end there: he went on to become one of the great abstract painters. Like Kandinsky, music was his model, but Kandinsky only knew music from the outside—as a listener (inspired initially by Wagner, then by Schoenberg)—while Feininger knew it from the inside. He lived in Paris from 1906 to 1908, during which time he met and was influenced by the work of progressive painters Robert Delaunay and Jules Pascin, as well as that of Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. He began painting full-time, developing his distinctive Iyrical style based on Cubist and Expressionist idioms and a concern for the emotive qualities of light and color. He exhibited with the Der Blaue Reiter group in 1913, and in 1917, he had his first solo exhibition at Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin.
One year after his solo exhibition, in 1918, Feininger began making woodcuts. He became enamored with the medium, producing an impressive 117 in his first year of exploring the printmaking medium. In 1919 at the invitation of the architect Walter Gropius, he was appointed the first master at the newly formed Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar. His woodcut of a cathedral crowned...
Category
1930s Bauhaus Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Ecce Homo Plate X
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Ecce Homo Plate X
Woodcut, 1921
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil by the artist (see photos)
Edition: One of two known impressions
This image wwas unknown to the catloger Ingrid Rose in 1984 when she published the catalog raisonne of Drewes prints.
Done while Drewes was studying at the Bauhaus.
Reference: Ingrid Rose, Werner Drewes: A Catalogue Raisonne of His Prints (Munich: Verlag Kunstgalerie Esslingen, 1984), 33, one of two known impressions.
Provenance: Gift of the artist to one of his Bauhaus professors.
Held in East Germany until the opening of the wall
Jorg Maas Kunsthandel, Berlin
Other image from the suite of Ecce Homo images are available.
Extremely early, rare Bauhaus works.
n 1921 Drewes went to the Bauhaus in Weimar, where, after completing the compulsory preliminary course with Johannes Itten, he continued to study with Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer and Georg Muche and initially went to the wall painting workshop. He then traveled extensively through Europe, North America and Asia. After returning to Germany in 1927, he went back to the Bauhaus, this time to his new location in Dessau, where he studied in the classes of László Moholy-Nagy and Wassily Kandinsky. He was one of the first artists to introduce the groundbreaking concepts of the Bauhaus School in the United States through his painting, printmaking, and teaching.
Werner Drewes (1899–1985) was a painter, printmaker, and art teacher. Considered to be one of the founding fathers of American abstraction, he was one of the first artists to introduce concepts of the Bauhaus school within the United States. His mature style encompassed both nonobjective and figurative work and the emotional content of this work was consistently more expressive than formal. Drewes was as highly regarded for his printmaking as for his painting. In his role as teacher as well as artist he was largely responsible for bringing the Bauhaus aesthetic to America.
Early life and education
Drewes was born in 1899 to Georg Drewes, a Lutheran pastor, and Martha Schaefer Drewes. The family lived in the village of Canig within Lower Lusatia, Germany. From age eight to eighteen he attended the Saldria Gymnasium, a boarding school in Brandenburg an der Havel. There, he showed talent both for painting and woodblock printing. Graduating from Saldria in 1917, he was drafted by the German army and served in France from then until the close of the war. About this period of his life he is reported to have said that the horrors of life at the front were only made tolerable by his sketchbook, a copy of Goethe's Faust and a volume of Nietzsche.
For a decade following the close of the war he studied, made paintings and prints, and traveled widely. His friend, Herwarth Walden, helped shape his appreciation for expressionist literature and art. Walden produced the quarterly magazine, Der Sturm and ran a gallery of contemporary art, Galerie Der Sturm, from which, in 1919, Drewes purchased an expressionist painting by William Wauer titled Blutrausch (Bloodlust). In the same year he made the acquaintance of Heinrich Vogeler and participated in Vogeler's socialist utopian artists' commune, Barkenhoff, at Worpswede, Lower Saxony. In 1919 Drewes also enrolled at the Königlich Technischen Hochschule Charlottenburg to study architecture and the following year he studied the same subject at the Technischen Hochschule Stuttgart. Preferring art over architecture, he then enrolled in Stuttgart's school of applied arts (Kunstgewerbeschule) where he studied life drawing and learned to work with colored glass. At this time he joined a group of artists and architects associated with the newly formed Merz Akademie, a college of design, art, and media in Stuttgart.
In 1921 his friendship with a French artist, Sébastien Laurent, led him to begin studies in Weimar at Bauhaus, then a new school which taught an integrated approach to the fine and applied arts. His instructors were Johannes Itten and Lyonel Feininger, whose paintings were expressionist and abstract, and Paul Klee, who taught bookbinding, stained glass, and murals. While at Bauhaus Drewes produced a portfolio of ten woodblock prints entitled "Ecce Homo."
In 1923 and 1924 he studied art during travels throughout Italy, Spain, the United States, and Central America and in 1926 he traveled to San Francisco, Japan, and Korea, thence taking the Trans-Siberian railway to Manchuria, Moscow, and Warsaw. He later said the El Grecos he saw proved to be most influential in his work. While traveling, he exhibited: (1) etchings in Madrid (1923) and Montevideo (1924), oils and etchings in Buenos Aires and St. Louis (1925), and (3) etchings in San Francisco (1926). He paid his way by the sales these exhibits produced and by taking commissions to paint portraits. While in San Francisco he set up a shop from which he sold prints he had made in Spain and South America.
After his return to Germany in 1927 he resumed study at Bauhaus, which had been forced to relocate in Dessau, Saxony-Anhalt. His instructors at that time were László Moholy-Nagy (metal work), Wassily Kandinsky, and (painting), and Lyonel Feininger (prints). At this time he also worked and exhibited in Frankfurt. With the rise of Nazism abstract artists found it increasingly difficult to sell their work and, in 1930, Drewes, finding the political pressure unbearable, emigrated to the United States. There, despite the world economic crisis, Drewes was able to earn a living as a professional artist.
Mature style
After Drewes moved to New York, Kandinsky, who was both friend and mentor, continued to exert a strong influence over his style. Later in life he said he had a hard time getting away from Kandinsky's influence as he developed his own style. In time he was able to bring a more emotional approach to his work and to base it, more than Kandinsky did, on natural forms.
In 1930 Drewes had a solo exhibition at the 135th Street Branch of the New York Public Library and a two-person show at the S.P.R. Penthouse Gallery...
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1920s Bauhaus Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
The Man in Love, from: Masters Portfolio - Signed Lithograph - Bauhaus
By Paul Klee
Located in London, GB
PAUL KLEE 1879-1940
Münchenbuchsee 1879 - 1940 Muralto (German)
Title: The Man in Love, from: Masters Portfolio of the Staatliches Bauhaus Der Verliebte: Meistermappe des Staatlichen Bauhauses, 1923
Technique: Original Hand Signed Lithograph in Colours on Wove Paper
Paper size: 34.2 x 27 cm. / 13.5 x 10.6 in.
Image size: 27.7 x 19 cm. / 10.9 x 7.5 in.
Additional Information: This original lithograph in colours is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Klee" at the lower right margin.
Our impression is from the final state of this lithograph which was printed in a limited edition of 100 impressions by Staatliches Bauhaus, Weimar. It was published by Bauhaus Verlag. Munich and Weimar.
Other impressions of this work can be found in the collections of the Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, and Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Note:
This composition is one of eight subjects which comprise the ‘Meistermappe des Staatlichen Bauhauses’ [The Masters Portfolio of the Bauhaus]. The contributors to the portfolio were Paul Klee, Wasily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy, Lothar Schreyer...
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1920s Bauhaus Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Never Ending Nicht Endend - Bauhaus German
By Paul Klee
Located in London, GB
This etching is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Klee" at the lower right margin.
It is dated in pencil ‘1930’ in the lower left margin.
It is also inscribed ‘K 10’ in pencil ne...
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1930s Bauhaus Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Triangulated Squares, Bauhaus Silkscreen by Herbert Bayer
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Herbert Bayer, Austrian (1900 - 1985)
Title: Triangulated Squares
Year: 1969
Medium: Screenprint, signed in pencil
Size: 32 in. x 33 in. (81.28 cm x 83.82 cm)
Printed at Kel...
Category
1960s Bauhaus Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
'Church with House and Tree' – Artist's Personal Letterhead, Bauhaus Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Church with House and Tree (Kirche mit Haus und Baum)', woodcut, 1936, one of a small but unknown number of letterhead proofs; Prasse W290 V. Inscribed 'J. F. note paper', in pencil, in the artist’s hand; with the Feininger estate stamp and catalog no. 'W 859' in pencil. Annotated 'W.290 V state 3609' in pencil, in the bottom right sheet corner.
A fine impression, on cream, laid letterhead stock; hinge remains on the left and right top sheet edges, verso, in excellent condition. Very scarce.
Image size 2 3/8 x 2 3/4 inches; sheet size 10 x 7 5/16 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Exhibited: 'Lyonel Feininer, Woodcuts Used As Letterheads'; Associated American Artists; Feb 4 - March 2, 1974; NY, NY.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was born in New York City into a musical family—his father was a violinist and composer, his mother was a singer and pianist. He studied violin with his father, and by the age of 12, he was performing in public. Still, he also drew incessantly, most notably the steamboats and sailing ships on the Hudson and East Rivers, and the landscape around Sharon, Conn., where he spent time on a farm owned by a family friend. At the age of 16 he left New York to study music and art in Germany, from where his parents emigrated. Drawn more to the visual arts, he attended schools in Hamburg, Berlin, and Paris from 1887 to 1892.
After completing his studies, Feininger began his artistic career as a cartoonist and illustrator, his originality leading him to great success. In 1906, after working for a dozen years in Germany, he was offered a job as a cartoonist at the Chicago Tribune, the largest circulation newspaper in the Midwest. He worked there for a year, inventing what became the standard design for the comic strip: in the words of John Carlin, “an overall pattern. . . that allowed the page to be read both as a series of elements one after the other, like language and as a group of juxtaposed images, like visual art.” His originality did not end there: he went on to become one of the great abstract painters. Like Kandinsky, music was his model, but Kandinsky only knew music from the outside—as a listener (inspired initially by Wagner, then by Schoenberg)—while Feininger knew it from the inside. He lived in Paris from 1906 to 1908, during which time he met and was influenced by the work of progressive painters Robert Delaunay and Jules Pascin, as well as that of Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. He began painting full-time, developing his distinctive Iyrical style based on Cubist and Expressionist idioms and a concern for the emotive qualities of light and color. He exhibited with the Der Blaue Reiter group in 1913, and in 1917, he had his first solo exhibition at Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin.
One year after his solo exhibition, in 1918, Feininger began making woodcuts. He became enamored with the medium, producing an impressive 117 in his first year of exploring the printmaking medium. In 1919 at the invitation of the architect Walter Gropius, he was appointed the first master at the newly formed Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar. His woodcut of a cathedral crowned...
Category
1930s Bauhaus Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
'Three Masted Ship, 2' – Artist's Personal Letterhead, Bauhaus Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Three Masted Ship, 2 (Dreimastiges Schiff, 2)', woodcut, 1937, one of a small but unknown number of letterhead proofs; Prasse W296. Feininger estate stamp and inventory no. 'W 865' in pencil, bottom left sheet corner. Annotated 'W 296' and 'on block : 3702a' in pencil, bottom right sheet corner.
A fine impression, on cream, laid, letterhead stock; hinge remains on the left and right top sheet edges, verso, in excellent condition. Very scarce.
Image size 2 1/4 x 2 11/16 inches; sheet size 10 x 6 3/4 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Exhibited: 'Lyonel Feininer, Woodcuts Used As Letterheads'; Associated American Artists; Feb 4 - March 2, 1974; New York, NY.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was born in New York City into a musical family—his father was a violinist and composer, his mother was a singer and pianist. He studied violin with his father, and by the age of 12, he was performing in public, but he also drew incessantly, most notably the steamboats and sailing ships on the Hudson and East Rivers, and the landscape around Sharon, Conn., where he spent time on a farm owned by a family friend. At the age of 16 he left New York to study music and art in Germany, from where his parents emigrated. Drawn more to the visual arts, he attended schools in Hamburg, Berlin, and Paris from 1887 to 1892.
After completing his studies, Feininger began his artistic career as a cartoonist and illustrator, his originality leading him to great success. In 1906, after working for a dozen years in Germany, he was offered a job as a cartoonist at the Chicago Tribune, the largest circulation newspaper in the Midwest. He worked there for a year, inventing what became the standard design for the comic strip: in the words of John Carlin, “an overall pattern. . . that allowed the page to be read both as a series of elements one after the other, like language and as a group of juxtaposed images, like visual art.” His originality did not end there: he went on to become one of the great abstract painters. Like Kandinsky, music was his model, but Kandinsky only knew music from the outside—as a listener (inspired initially by Wagner, then by Schoenberg)—while Feininger knew it from the inside. He lived in Paris from 1906 to 1908, during which time he met and was influenced by the work of progressive painters Robert Delaunay and Jules Pascin, as well as that of Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. He began painting full-time, developing his distinctive Iyrical style based on Cubist and Expressionist idioms and a concern for the emotive qualities of light and color. He exhibited with the Der Blaue Reiter group in 1913, and in 1917, he had his first solo exhibition at Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin.
One year after his solo exhibition, in 1918, Feininger began making woodcuts. He became enamored with the medium, producing an impressive 117 in his first year of exploring the printmaking medium. In 1919 at the invitation of the architect Walter Gropius, he was appointed the first master at the newly formed Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar. His woodcut of a cathedral crowned...
Category
1930s Bauhaus Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
'Ausfahrender Dampfer Odin (Outboard Steamer Odin)' — German Expressionism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Ausfahrender Dampfer Odin (Outboard Steamer Odin)', woodcut, 1918, proofs only. Prasse W75. Signed in pencil and annotated '1860', the artist’s inventory number. A...
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1910s Bauhaus Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Barcelona - limited edition photograph of iconic midcentury pavillion (48x87")
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Barcelona by Frank Schott
A sere interior photograph of the iconic mid century modern "Barcelona Pavilion", designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, director of the Bauhaus, who envisi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Bauhaus Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée
Twin Formation in Gray
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Twin Formation in Gray, color woodcut, 1982, edition 30, Rose III.400. Signed, dated and numbered I7/XXX in pencil, annotated 415 and titled in the bottom left sheet edge. A fine impression with fresh, rich colors, on heavy off-white Japan paper; the full sheet with wide margins (1 3/4 to 3 1/4 inches), in good condition. Printed in black, dark gray, medium gray, yellow/orange, and lemon yellow. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
An impression of this work is included in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Painter, printmaker, and art teacher, Werner Drewes (1899–1985) was among the founding fathers of American abstraction. A student at the famed Bauhaus in the 1920s, he studied under Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Wassily Kandinsky. Following his emigration to the United States in 1930, he was instrumental in introducing modernist Bauhaus concepts and esthetics to America. Drewes’ boldly dynamic and emotionally expressive work, which encompassed both non-objective and figurative genres, brought him critical acclaim and numerous gallery and institutional exhibitions throughout his artistic career.
Drewes' graphic work can be found in most major American art museums including, the Ackland Art Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, Bauhaus Archive...
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Late 20th Century Bauhaus Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Centre Art et Recherches 1966, Lithograph
By Le Corbusier
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Original lithograph design by Le Corbusier for an exhibition held in 1966 at the Pavillon de Marsan in Paris. The original lithograph measures 15.5 x 16 inches. Very rare and hard-to...
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1960s Bauhaus Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
'Little Locomotive' – Artist's Personal Letterhead, Bauhaus Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Little Locomotive (Kleine Lokomotive)', woodcut, 1936, one of a small but unknown number of letterhead proofs; Prasse W158. Annotated 'W 158' (Feininger catalogue number) and '1936' in pencil, in the bottom right sheet corner.
A fine impression, on cream, laid letterhead stock; hinge remains on the left and right top sheet edges, verso, in excellent condition. Very scarce.
Image size 2 1/4 x 3 5/16 inches; sheet size 10 x 7 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Exhibited: 'Lyonel Feininer, Woodcuts Used As Letterheads'; Associated American Artists; Feb 4 - March 2, 1974; New York, NY.
Collections: Cleveland Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (East Berlin KK).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was born in New York City into a musical family—his father was a violinist and composer, his mother was a singer and pianist. He studied violin with his father, and by the age of 12, he was performing in public, but he also drew incessantly, most notably the steamboats and sailing ships on the Hudson and East Rivers, and the landscape around Sharon, Conn., where he spent time on a farm owned by a family friend. At the age of 16 he left New York to study music and art in Germany, from where his parents emigrated. Drawn more to the visual arts, he attended schools in Hamburg, Berlin, and Paris from 1887 to 1892.
After completing his studies, Feininger began his artistic career as a cartoonist and illustrator, his originality leading him to great success. In 1906, after working for a dozen years in Germany, he was offered a job as a cartoonist at the Chicago Tribune, the largest circulation newspaper in the Midwest. He worked there for a year, inventing what became the standard design for the comic strip: in the words of John Carlin, “an overall pattern. . . that allowed the page to be read both as a series of elements one after the other, like language and as a group of juxtaposed images, like visual art.” His originality did not end there: he went on to become one of the great abstract painters. Like Kandinsky, music was his model, but Kandinsky only knew music from the outside—as a listener (inspired initially by Wagner, then by Schoenberg)—while Feininger knew it from the inside. He lived in Paris from 1906 to 1908, during which time he met and was influenced by the work of progressive painters Robert Delaunay and Jules Pascin, as well as that of Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. He began painting full-time, developing his distinctive Iyrical style based on Cubist and Expressionist idioms and a concern for the emotive qualities of light and color. He exhibited with the Der Blaue Reiter group in 1913, and in 1917, he had his first solo exhibition at Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin.
One year after his solo exhibition, in 1918, Feininger began making woodcuts. He became enamored with the medium, producing an impressive 117 in his first year of exploring the printmaking medium. In 1919 at the invitation of the architect Walter Gropius, he was appointed the first master at the newly formed Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar. His woodcut of a cathedral crowned...
Category
1930s Bauhaus Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Pointed Shapes and Black Half Moon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Werner Drewes, 'Pointed Shapes and Black Half Moon', etching, 1935, edition 20, Rose l.198. Signed, dated, and numbered 'I-XX' in pencil. A fine, rich impression, in warm black ink...
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1930s Bauhaus Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
THOMSON Gyrathomic, Original horizontal French mid-century vintage poster
By Guy Georget
Located in Spokane, WA
Original THOMSON Gyrathomic. Horizontal format original French vintage lithograph poster. Artist: Guy Georget. C. 1955. Archival linen backed. Very good condition.
A fun...
Category
1950s Bauhaus Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
'Church with House and Tree' – Artist's Personal Letterhead, 1940s Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Church with House and Tree (Kirche mit Haus und Baum)', woodcut, 1936, one of a small but unknown number of letterhead proofs; Prasse W290 IV. Annotated 'PW 290 state IV / IV 3669', in pencil, in the bottom right sheet corner. With the artist's typed address and date adjacent to the letterhead image: 'Falls Village, Connecticut September 26th, 1940'.
A fine impression, on buff, wove letterhead stock; several small losses, and tears, in the sheet edges (not affecting the image area); a crease in the bottom right sheet edge, otherwise in good condition. Very scarce.
Image size: 2 3/8 x 2 3/4 inches; sheet size 11 x 8 5/8 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Feininger moved from Germany to New York City in 1938 and began spending his summers in Falls Village in 1940.
Exhibited: 'Lyonel Feininer, Woodcuts Used As Letterheads'; Associated American Artists; Feb 4 - March 2, 1974; New York, NY.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was born in New York City into a musical family—his father was a violinist and composer, his mother was a singer and pianist. He studied violin with his father, and by the age of 12, he was performing in public, but he also drew incessantly, most notably the steamboats and sailing ships on the Hudson and East Rivers, and the landscape around Sharon, Conn., where he spent time on a farm owned by a family friend. At the age of 16 he left New York to study music and art in Germany, from where his parents emigrated. Drawn more to the visual arts, he attended schools in Hamburg, Berlin, and Paris from 1887 to 1892.
After completing his studies, Feininger began his artistic career as a cartoonist and illustrator, his originality leading him to great success. In 1906, after working for a dozen years in Germany, he was offered a job as a cartoonist at the Chicago Tribune, the largest circulation newspaper in the Midwest. He worked there for a year, inventing what became the standard design for the comic strip: in the words of John Carlin, “an overall pattern. . . that allowed the page to be read both as a series of elements one after the other, like language and as a group of juxtaposed images, like visual art.” His originality did not end there: he went on to become one of the great abstract painters. Like Kandinsky, music was his model, but Kandinsky only knew music from the outside—as a listener (inspired initially by Wagner, then by Schoenberg)—while Feininger knew it from the inside. He lived in Paris from 1906 to 1908, during which time he met and was influenced by the work of progressive painters Robert Delaunay and Jules Pascin, as well as that of Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. He began painting full-time, developing his distinctive Iyrical style based on Cubist and Expressionist idioms and a concern for the emotive qualities of light and color. He exhibited with the Der Blaue Reiter group in 1913, and in 1917, he had his first solo exhibition at Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin.
One year after his solo exhibition, in 1918, Feininger began making woodcuts. He became enamored with the medium, producing an impressive 117 in his first year of exploring the printmaking medium. In 1919 at the invitation of the architect Walter Gropius, he was appointed the first master at the newly formed Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar. His woodcut of a cathedral crowned...
Category
1930s Bauhaus Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
'Varietesoubrette, Schwalbennest' also Dancer — 1920s German Expressionism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Martel Schwichtenberg (1896-1945), 'Varietésoubrette, Schwalbennest (Variety Soubrette, Swallow’s Nest), drypoint, 1922. Signed in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression; the full sheet of cream wove paper, with wide margins (3 3/4 to 5 1/4 inches), in excellent condition. Image size 7 3/16 x 4 5/16 inches; sheet size 16 3/8 x 12 1/8 inches. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Published in Die Schaffenden...
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1920s Bauhaus Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
Insel, 1933
Located in Kansas City, MO
Lyonel Feininger (after)
Insel, 1933
Collotype, watercolor
Size: 11.5x17in on 17.5x22in
Esther Gentle, Reproduction, 1952
Signed, titled and dated in the stone
Stamped and numbered b...
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1930s Bauhaus Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor, Color
Small Forms On Crossing Bands
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Werner Drewes, 'Small Forms on Crossing Bands', drypoint and roulette, 1935, edition 20, Rose 1.197. Signed in pencil. A fine, rich impression, in warm black ink, on cream wove paper...
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1930s Bauhaus Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
Kreuzende Segelschiffe 2 (Cruising Sailing Ships 2)
Located in New York, NY
Lyonel Feininger, “Kreuzende Segelschiffe 2 (Cruising Sailing Ships 2)”
1919, Woodcut.
Prasse W175. Edition 275 unsigned for portfolio Die tunlte Jahresgabe des Kreises graphischer ...
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1910s Bauhaus Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
BENDIX ALUFROID original horizontal French poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Herve Movan vintage French poster: BENDIX ALUFROID.
Horizontal format size: 43" wide by 30.5.
Professional acid-free archival linen backed, very good condition; ready to ...
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1960s Bauhaus Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Bauhaus (Red and Green), Geometric Abstract Screenprint by Gisela Beker
By Gisela Beker
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gisela Beker, German/American (1932 - 2015)
Title: Bauhaus (Red and Green)
Year: Circa 1975
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
E...
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1970s Bauhaus Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Framed Bauhaus Print by Herbert Bayer
Located in Long Island City, NY
A print from the CCA folio of Herbert Bayer published in 1965. Nicely framed.
Untitled
Herbert Bayer, Austrian (1900–1985)
Date: 1964 (1965)
Offset Lithograph
Frame Size: 16.5 x 22 ...
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1960s Bauhaus Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
Tender Picture E, Bauhaus Print by Herbert Bayer
Located in Long Island City, NY
A print from the CCA folio of Herbert Bayer published in 1965. Nicely framed.
Tender Picture E
Herbert Bayer, Austrian (1900–1985)
Date: 1928 (1965)
Offset Lithograph
Image Size: 9 ...
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1960s Bauhaus Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
Gewerbemuseum, Basel/Licht Reklame. 1928.
By Charles Karl Hidenlang
Located in New York, NY
Hindenlang, Charles [Karl]. Gewerbemuseum, Basel/Licht Reklame. 1928.
Color lithograph. Printed by Wasserman, Basel. 35 1/5 x 50 1/4."
Hiddenlang was known primarily as a muralist with interests in painting,
glassware, ceramics, stage and graphic design. Born in Basel and
educated at the city's Gewerbeschule.
The Kunsthalle Basel dedicated to him in 1965 along with Dick and Karl Otto...
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1920s Bauhaus Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Florence Henri
Located in New York, NY
Ritratti al Bauhaus. Photo-offset poster.
Museo cantonale d'arte Lugano
Year: 1991.
Monguzzi studied in Geneva and London, spent part of his early career in at the studio of Antonio Boggeri, in Milan. The inspiration of the experimental and visually-daring work of the avant garde designers Herbert Bayer, El Lissitsky, Jan Tschichold, Piet Zwart, Paul Schuitema, Ladislav Sutnar...
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1990s Bauhaus Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
Bauhaus "Neue europäische Graphik" 3rd Portfolio German Artists
Located in Berlin, DE
Bauhaus 3rd portfolio: German Artists. Number 11 from edition of 110. Handprinted. Semi parchment paper. Signed. Produced and published by the Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar. Im original box. Sheet 3, 8, and 9 are framed.
Measurements: 22.64 x 18.11 x 0.98 in ( 57,5 x 46 x 2,5 cm )
Index of contents:
Sheet 1 Rudolf Bauer, Bantama, lithograph, circa 1921
Sheet 2 Willi Baumeister, Visieren (Sitzende Figur), lithograph, 1921-2
Sheet 3 Heinrich Campendonck, Sitzender weiblicher Akt in Landschaft mit Bauernhaus, woodcut, 1920-21
Sheet 4 Walter Dexel, Sternenbrücke (Abstrakte Komposition), woodcut, 1919
Sheet 5 Oskar Fischer, Reitendes Paar, lithograph, 1920-21
Sheet 6 J. van Heemskerk, Komposition, woodcut, 1920-21
Sheet 7 Bernhard Hoetger, Figuren, lithograph, 1921
Sheet 8 August Macke...
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1920s Bauhaus Prints and Multiples
Materials
Parchment Paper
Ariadne
By Max Bill
Located in New York, NY
City Theatre matinee- 24 April 10:45 - dance studio wuff, basel
(includes notice of postponement of a ballet by
Satie and Picabia and a statement of aesthetics in small type)
Zurich.
Letter press...
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1930s Bauhaus Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
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