Blaue Marine (Blue Marine)
Artist
Lyonel C.A. Feininger
(American, 1871 - 1956)
Date1924
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsFramed: 25 1/8 x 39 1/4 in. (63.8 x 99.7 cm)
Overall: 18 15/16 x 33 3/16 in., (48.1 x 84.3 cm,)
Overall: 18 15/16 x 33 3/16 in., (48.1 x 84.3 cm,)
ClassificationsPAINTINGS
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Terms
Object number52.35
Description On View
On viewCollections
CopyrightPresumed copyright: the artist or the artist's representative/heir(s) / Licensed by ARS, New York, NY.
Label TextWhile at the avant-garde art school, the Bauhaus, in Weimar, Germany, Lyonel
Feininger spent summer months sketching on the Baltic Sea. He completed numerous works on paper that served as the basis of the compositions he painted once he was reestablished in his daily routine in Weimar. In 1924, when he painted Blue Marine, he vacationed for the first time in Deep, a small seaside village that was to become his holiday destination for the next eleven years.
In Blue Marine, Feininger continued the compositional explorations he had begun in earlier pictures of the sea, subjecting nature to a new, linear order. The painting is organized by severe horizontal lines that separate the shore from the sea and the sea from the sky. The horizontal movement is interrupted by the verticality of the figures, the two boats, and the indistinct clouds, that, as part of the architectural structure of the painting, take on the appearance of floating cubes.
Achim Moeller
2005
