Lyonel Feininger
Village in Thuringia1943

On view:

Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

Artist or Maker: Lyonel Feininger
Title: Village in Thuringia
Place Made: United States
Date Made: 1943
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 24 × 30 in. (60.96 × 76.2 cm)
Credit Line: Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof
Accession Number: M.2005.70.26
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: Modern Art
Curatorial Notes: Lyonel Feininger painted Village in Thuringia from memory in New York City, where he moved from the Thuringia area of Germany after fleeing the increasingly oppressive atmosphere of the Nazi regime in 1937. Arcueil I (to the right) was one of several paintings the artist was unable to take with him; it remained unknown and inaccessible in East Germany until the 1980s.

Wall label, 2021.
Provenance: The artist (1871-1956); [Curt Valentin, New York]. [Sold in 1975 at Sotheby’s London]; to John W. O’Boyle (1943- 1998), Dallas; [Saidenberg Gallery, New York]; sold in 1987 to Janice and Henri Lazarof, Los Angeles; given in 2005 to LACMA.
Selected Bibliography: Moeller, Achim. Lyonel Feininger: The Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings. "Die Schläferin (Julia), 1913," no. 122. Moeller Fine Art, 2018. Online catalogue raisonné, http://feiningerproject.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=240.