Street of Barns, 1914

East Building, Mezzanine — Gallery 217-A

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 121.9 x 99.1 cm (48 x 39 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Arnold and Joan Saltzman

Accession Number

2001.129.1

Artists / Makers

Lyonel Feininger (painter) American, 1871 - 1956

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Inscription

lower right: Feininger

Provenance

Acquired by the Museum Folkwang, Essen, from which it was removed by the Nazi government as "degenerate art" in 1937.[1] (Robert Norbert Ketterer, Lugano, Switzerland). (Sale no. 147, Kornfeld & Klipstein, Bern, June 1973, no. 221). Arnold A. [1916-2014] and Joan R. [1919-2019] Saltzman, Sands Point, New York; gift (partial and promised) 2001 to NGA; gift completed 2020.

[1] Beschlagnahmeinventar "Entartete Kunst" no. 16083, "Degenerate Art" Research Center, Freie Universität Berlin. http://emuseum.campus.fu-berlin.de/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&moduleFunction=search

Associated Names

Museum Folkwang Essen
Saltzman, Arnold, Mr. and Mrs.

Exhibition History

1937: Entartete Kunst, Munich, 1937, no. 16083.

1991: "Degenerate Art" The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany, Los Angeles Country Museum of Art; Art Institute of Chicago, 1991 (shown only in Los Angeles).

2001: German Expressionist Paintings from the Saltzman Family Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2001-2002, brochure, cover illustration.