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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. 1334-04-17-15.
Provenance
Alois J. Schardt, Berlin - Pomona.
Private collection, New York.
In 1913 Lyonel Feininger spent several months working in Weimar and the surrounding villages. On September 27, 1913, shortly before his return to Berlin, he wrote to his wife Julia: 'It was tormenting to think of having to leave Weimar...and especially now since the Fall is beautiful beyond expression...Today when at last I went out into the park and was drawing trees I couldn't bear it any longer, I hasted to the post office to send the telegram that I would remain three more days.' That same day Feininger took the dirt road from Weimar to the village of Niedergrunstedt, where he made this sketch of a tree-lined road. The drawing seems to capture the impending autumn in both composition and tonality, serving as a preliminary study for the painting Landweg nach Niedergrunstedt (Country Road to Niedergrunstedt), 1914 (Hess 118).