Nationality
American
Artist Dates
1871-1956
Title of Work
Preview
Date of Work
1920 (printed 1958)
Medium
woodcut
Collection/Provenance
Provenance: James Smith Pierce Collection
Pending Gift from the estate of James Smith Pierce to the Art & Design Study Collection
Status
Displayed
Location
School of Medicine & Health Sciences Building
Additional Information
During the early twentieth century, Feininger traveled between Germany and the United States, bringing new ideas about painting that he learned from the German Expressionists and invigorating modernist art in America. This work reflects the German Expressionists’ commitment to employing traditional materials in new ways—Feininger created a modern, geometric abstraction using a woodcut, one of the oldest printmaking techniques.
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