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Identification and Creation
Object Number
BR50.414
People
Lyonel Feininger, American (New York, NY 1871 - 1956
New York, NY)
Title
Bird Cloud
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Vogelwolke [Wolke nach dem
Sturm]
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1926
Culture
German
Physical Descriptions
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
43.8 x 71.1 cm (17 1/4 x 28 in.)
framed: 49 x 76 x 6 cm (19 5/16 x 29 15/16 x 2 3/8 in.)
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Inscriptions and Marks
Signed: at l.r.: Feininger 1926
label: on backing-board, at u.l.: HAUS DER KUNST
MÜNCHEN // Ausstellung : Lyonel Feininger // Name
das Künstlers: // Titel des Werkes: Wolke nach dem
Sturm, 1926 // Leigeber: Busch-Reisinger Museum,
Cambridge // Technik: Öl Maße: 42.5 x 70 Kat.-Nr.: 115
label: on backing-board, at u.l.: YAMATO TRANSPORT
CO., LTD. // FINE ARTS DIVISION // EXHIBT. Modern Art
at Harvard // CASE NO. 9 CATAL. NO. 43
label: on backing-board, at l.l.: MODERN ART AT
HARVARD // Bunkamura Museum of Art, 7/31-9/26/99;
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, 10/9-11/14/99;
Matsuzakaya Art Museum, 12/2-12/17/99; Oita City Art
Museum, 1/6-2/6/2000; Museum of Modern Art, 2/113/36/2000 // Painting // Lyonel Feininger (New York,
NY, USA, 1871 - 1956, New York, NY, USA) // Bird Cloud
// Oil on canvas // BR50.414 Crate MAH09
label: on backing-board, u.l.: Haus der Kunst, München
Lyonel Feininger 1.11.98-24.1.99 // Kisten Nr: 72 //
Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University // Lyonel
Feininger // Wolke nach dem Sturm, 1926 // Öl auf LW
label: on backing-board, u.l.: FEININGER EXHIBITION:
APRIL 1969 // Marlborough Marlborough-Gerson
Gallery Inc. 41 East 57th Street New York 22 Plaza 25353 // Artist FEININGER, Lyonel Media oil on canvas //
Title The Bird Cloud Year 1926 // Size 17 ¼ x 28 inches
cm. Stock No. 389x Photo No.
label: on backing-board, u.r.: BR // Busch-Reisinger
Museum, Harvard University, 29 Kirkland St.,
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 // DEUTSCHE
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KUNST DES 20. JAHRHUNDERTS DEM BUSCHREISINGER MUSEUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY // Lyonel
Feininger, Bird Cloud (Vogelwolke) // Check list number
40 crate number 13 // Städel, Frankfurt Oct. 21, 1982 Jan. 19, 1983 // Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin Feb. 10, 1983 April 1983 // Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf May 8 - June
26, 1983
label: on backing-board, at l.r.: BR // Busch-Reisinger
Museum, Harvard University // Accession # 1950.414 //
Artist: // Lyonel Feininger // (1871-1956) // Title: // Bird
Cloud, 1926 // Medium: // Oil on canvas // Credit Line:
Museum Purchase // in memory of Eda K. Loeb
label: on backing-board, u.r.: BUSCH // FOGG ART
MUSEUM // LOAN FOR EXAMINATION // 23342.1
Provenance
Lyonel Feininger, gift; to Julia Feininger, by 1943-1950,
sold; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1950.
NOTE: Letter from L. Feininger to J. B. Neumann, Oct.
4, 1943, describes painting as belonging to his wife.
State, Edition, Standard
Standard Reference Number
Reference Number
Hess, 268
Acquisition and Rights
Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum,
Purchase in memory of Eda K. Loeb
Copyright
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© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG BildKunst, Bonn
Accession Year
1950
Object Number
BR50.414
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
[email protected]
Publication History
Hans Hess, Lyonel Feininger, Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
(New York, NY, 1961), cat. no. 268, color illus. p. 101
Charles Werner Haxthausen, "The Busch-Reisinger
Museum, Harvard: the Germanic Tradition", Apollo
(May 1978), vol. 107, no. 195, pp. 403-413, p. 411, repr.
p. 411 as fig. 8
Charles Werner Haxthausen, The Busch-Reisinger
Museum, Harvard University, Abbeville Press (New
York, NY, 1980), pp. 13, 24, 115, repr. p. 24
Kristin A. Mortimer, Harvard University Art Museums: A
Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art
Museums/Abbeville Press (Cambridge, MA; New York,
NY, 1985), no. 378, p. 316, repr.
Peter Nisbet and Emilie Norris, Busch-Reisinger
Museum: History and Holdings, Harvard University Art
Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1991), p. 61, ill.
Timothy Anglin Burgard, American Art at Harvard:
Cultures and Contexts, brochure, Harvard University
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Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1994), pp. 4, 11, cat. 35
Lyonel Feininger : von Gelmeroda nach Manhattan, exh.
cat., Staatliche Museen zu Berlin--Preussischer
Kulturbesitz (Berlin, Germany, 1998), p.143, cat. no. 72
Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger
Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter
Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala
Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England,
2007), p. 123
Stephan Wolohojian, ed., Harvard Art Museum/
Handbook, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, MA,
2008), p. 204, ill.
Barbara Haskell, John Carlin, and Bryan Gilliam, Lyonel
Feininger, exh. cat., Somogy Éditions d'Art (Montreal,
Quebec, Canada, 2011), p. 125, fig. 129, ill.
Peter Nisbet, Lyonel Feininger Drawings and
Watercolors, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums and Hatje
Cantz (Cambridge, MA and Ostfildern, Germany, 2011),
p. 14, fig. 2
Exhibition History
100th Anniversary of Lyonel Feininger (The), Haus der
Kunst München, Munich, 02/26/1973 - 07/24/1973
From Werkbund to Bauhaus: Art and Design in
Germany 1900-1934, Busch-Reisinger Museum,
Cambridge
Works from the 20th Century Collection of the BuschReisinger, National Gallery of Art, Washington,
06/15/1980 - 09/01/1980; Wildenstein Gallery, New
York, New York, 09/23/1980 - 10/24/1980
20th-Century Works on Paper from the Permanent
Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge,
09/07/1981 - 11/11/1981
19th- and 20th-Century Works on Paper from the
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Permanent Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum,
Cambridge, 02/08/1982
Art of the Weimar Era, Busch-Reisinger Museum,
Cambridge, 04/05/1982 - 05/22/1982
Deutsche Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts aus dem BuschReisinger Museum , Stadtische Galerie im Stadelschen
Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, 10/23/1982 - 01/16/1983;
Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin 30, 02/10/1983 - 04/17/1983;
Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, 05/08/1983 06/26/1983
American Art at Harvard: Cultures and Contexts,
Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge,
10/01/1994 - 12/30/1994
Lyonel Feininger in Germany: 1887-1937, BuschReisinger Museum, Cambridge
Lyonel Feininger: From Gelmeroda to Manhattan,
Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin,
07/03/1998 - 10/11/1998; Haus der Kunst München,
Munich, 10/29/1998 - 01/17/1999
Modern Art at Harvard, Bunkamura Museum of Art,
Tokyo, 07/31/1999 - 09/26/1999; Takamatsu City
Museum of Art, Kagawa, 10/09/1999 - 11/14/1999;
Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya, 12/02/1999 12/27/1999; Oita City Museum, Oita, 01/06/2000 02/06/2000; Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Ibaraki,
02/11/2000 - 03/26/2000
Lyonel Feininger: Drawings and Watercolors from the
William S. Lieberman Bequest to the Busch-Reisinger
Museum , Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin,
02/26/2011 - 05/15/2011; Pinakothek der Moderne,
Munchen, 06/02/2011 - 07/17/2011
Lyonel Feininger: At the Edge of the World, The
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, 01/16/2012 05/13/2012
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Subjects and Contexts
The Bauhaus
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