GlenDronach
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- Aug 21, 2012
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Was at a local thrift store today, and saw this litho.
I read the name, sounded familiar, and googled it. When it said "similar artists: Paul Klee..." I freaked out.
When I flipped it over, it still had the museum collection tags on it.
It is a postwar litho by Lyonel Feininger, 1 of 250.
He's a pioneer of the Bauhaus school and German expressionism. He was considered a "degenerate artist" by the Nazi party and left for the US in the 30's.
Paid $60, and let me tell you, other prints from this series have not done bad in auctions
It's also one of those serendipitous finds. I had just seen Monuments Men over the weekend and was thinking..."It would be really neat to buy some art from the artists the Nazis found degenerate and destroyed the works they could capture."
I read the name, sounded familiar, and googled it. When it said "similar artists: Paul Klee..." I freaked out.
When I flipped it over, it still had the museum collection tags on it.
It is a postwar litho by Lyonel Feininger, 1 of 250.
He's a pioneer of the Bauhaus school and German expressionism. He was considered a "degenerate artist" by the Nazi party and left for the US in the 30's.
Paid $60, and let me tell you, other prints from this series have not done bad in auctions
It's also one of those serendipitous finds. I had just seen Monuments Men over the weekend and was thinking..."It would be really neat to buy some art from the artists the Nazis found degenerate and destroyed the works they could capture."
