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Collecting Passions—Masterworks of German Expressionism from an Important Private Collection

Lyonel Feininger

Trompetenbläser I (Trumpeters I)

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May 14, 01:12 AM GMT

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5,000,000 - 7,000,000 USD

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Collecting Passions—Masterworks of German Expressionism from an Important Private Collection

Lyonel Feininger 

(1871 -1956)


Trompetenbläser I (Trumpeters I)

signed Feininger and dated 12 (lower left); titled and inscribed KISTE „L. F. and numbered VII" (on the stretcher)

oil on canvas

37 ⅛ by 31 ½ in.   94.3 by 79.9 cm.

Executed in 1912.


Achim Moeller, Managing Principal of The Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York—Berlin has confirmed the authenticity of this work, which is registered under no. 1489-04-02-18. The work will be included in Lyonel Feininger: The Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings by Achim Moeller under no. 88.

Dr. Hermann Klumpp, Quedlingburg (deposited by the artist for safekeeping, 1935-72) 

Amt für den Rechtsschutz des Vermögens der DDR (AfR), Berlin (1972-73)

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldedepot der Nationalgalerie, Berlin (deposited for safekeeping 1973-84)

Julia Feininger, New York (acquired by descent from the artist and recovered by her estate from the above)

Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York (acquired from the estate of the above in 1985)

Richard L. Feigen and Co., New York (acquired from the above)

Mark Goodson, New York (acquired from the above on 10 October 1985) 

Pace Wildenstein, New York (acquired from the estate of the above in 1995)

Joan and Preston Robert Tisch, New York (acquired from the above on 15 November 1995)

Christie’s, New York, 15 May 2018, lot 16A (consigned by the estate of the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Letter from Alfred Kubin to Feininger, 17 January 1913 (titled Carnevalsbild)

Letter from Feininger to Julia Feininger, 1 September 1917

Hans Hess, Lyonel Feininger, Stuttgart, 1959, no. 78, p. 54; p. 255, illustrated

Dorothea Eimert, Der Einfluss des Futurismus auf die deutsche Malerei, Cologne, 1974, no. 178, p. 383

June Ness, ed., Lyonel Feininger, New York, 1974, pp. 88 and 94 

T. Lux Feininger and Vera Graaf, "Mein Vater hat einen Fehler gemacht," Du: Die Zeitschrift für Kunst und Kultur, vol. 5, 1986, p. 62 

“Lyonel Feininger: Frühe Werke,” Du: Die Zeitschrift für Kunst und Kultur, vol. 5, 1986, pp. 35-36, illustrated in color 

Ulrich Luckhardt, Lyonel Feininger, Munich, 1989, no. 11, pp. 70 -71, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Lugano, Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lyonel Feininger: La variante tematica e tecnica nello sviluppo del processo creativo, 1991, p. 114

Exh. Cat., Bonn, August Macke Hause, Avanti! Avanti! Futurismus im deutschen Expressionismus, 1998, pp. 26-27, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Hamburger Kunsthalle, Lyonel Feininger: Die Zeichnungen und Aquarelle, 1998, p. 214

Martin Faass, Lyonel Feininger und der Kubismus, Frankfurt, 1999, pp. 78 and 85; p. 121, illustrated

Petra Werner, Der Fall Feininger, Leipzig, 2006, no. 31, pp. 26, 83, 209, 213, 215, 216 and 224; p. 143, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Ingelheim am Rhein, Kunstforum Ingelheim—Altes Rathaus, Lyonel Feininger und Alfred Kubin: Eine Künstlerfreundschaft, 2015, fig. 2, p. 199, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Kunstmuseum Moritzburg Halle (Saale), Lyonel Feininger: Paris 1912, Die Rückkehr eine Verlorenen Gemäldes, 2016, p. 93

Exh. Cat., Madrid, Fundación Juan March, Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956), 2017, p. 61

Philip Hook, Art of the Extreme 1905-1914, London, 2021, p. 284; fig. 98, p. 285, illustrated in color

Claus-Peter Wirth, Lyonel Feiningers Schaffensprozess: Von Natur-Notizen ohne Nostalgie zum Kubismus in Umpferstedt, HohenHäusern und der GelbenDorfkirche, Heidelberg, 2023, p. 61, note 170 and p. 66, note 181

Achim Moeller,"Trompetenbläser I / (Trumpeters I), 1912 (Moeller 088)," Lyonel Feininger: The Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings. http://feiningerproject.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=90 (accessed on 12 April 2025)

Berlin, Galerie Der Sturm, Fünfundfünfzigste Ausstellung: Lyonel Feininger, Gemälde und Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, 1917, no. 44, n.p.

Munich, Neue Kunst Hans Goltz, 48 Ausstellung: Lyonel Feininger, 1918, no. 1, n.p.

Hagen, Folkwang-Museum, Lyonel Feininger, 1919, no. 10352

Dresden, Galerie Emil Richter, Lyonel Feininger: Sonder-Ausstellung seiner Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen und Holzschnitte, 1919, no. 9, p. 2

Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger: Gemälde, Graphik. XXIX. Sonder-Ausstellung, 1919-20, no. 131, n.p.

New York, Acquavella Galleries and Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, Exhibition Lyonel Feininger, 1985-86, no. 31, n.p., illustrated in color

New York, Pace Wildenstein, The Mark Goodson Collection. Modern Masters from the Collection of Mark Goodson, 1995, pp. 8-9, illustrated in color

Wuppertal, Von der Heydt-Museum, Lyonel Feininger, Frühe Werke und Freunde, 2006, p. 13; p. 120, illustrated in color

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art and The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Lyonel Feininger: At the Edge of the World, 2011, fig. 66, p. 61, illustrated in color (New York only)