Sunrise (Sonnenaufgang)

Lyonel Feininger

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Caption

Lyonel Feininger (American, 1871–1956). Sunrise (Sonnenaufgang), 1911. Etching, photograph, silver bromide print on laid paper, Plate: 5 7/8 x 9 3/16 in. (15 x 23.4 cm) Sheet: 16 3/4 x 20 1/2 in. (42.5 x 52.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Margo Pollins Schab, 87.99. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

American Art

Title

Sunrise (Sonnenaufgang)

Date

1911

Medium

Etching, photograph, silver bromide print on laid paper

Classification

Print

Dimensions

Plate: 5 7/8 x 9 3/16 in. (15 x 23.4 cm) Sheet: 16 3/4 x 20 1/2 in. (42.5 x 52.1 cm)

Signatures

Signed, "Leinoel Einfinger 1911" in plate, lower right. Signed, "Leinoel Einfinger" in pencil, lower left. Catalog sheet states that "Signature probably later (1919-1940), see Prasse appendix on signatures"

Markings

Watermarks: Laid paper with watermark of a crowned rearing lion (not proof described in Prasse)

Credit Line

Gift of Margo Pollins Schab

Accession Number

87.99

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