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Other Works by Lyonel Feininger. Please note that artwork locations are subject to change, and not all works are on view at all times. If you are planning a visit to SFMOMA to see a specific work of art, we suggest you contact us at collections@sfmoma.org to confirm it will be on view.
Named after a prominent Erfurt family, the Regler Church was begun in 1135 and dedicated to Saint Augustine. Feininger based his painting on a charcoal drawing, "Die Regler Kirche, Erfurt" (Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri), which he had completed in 1924.
Lyonel Feininger has 240 works online. There are 25,909 prints online. View the German Expressionism: Works from the Collection project site
This crystalline painting features one of Feininger’s favorite subjects—the Gothic church of Gelmeroda, located near Weimar, Germany. In his many images of the fourteenth-century structure, Feininger explored the building as a physical connector between the past and the present.
Over the course of several decades, Lyonel Feininger explored the motif of a church at Gelmeroda, a village near Weimar, Germany, which he had first visited in 1906.
Although Feininger never completely dissolved his subjects into abstractions, he reinterpreted buildings like the Regler Church with a 20th-century vocabulary of fractured facets especially well-suited to conveying the mystery and spiritual nature of the sacred structure.
Title: Church (Kirche) Artist: Lyonel Charles Feininger (American, New York 1871–1956 New York) Date: 1918. Medium: Woodcut. Dimensions: block: 7 x 8 11/16 inches (17.8 x 22.1 cm) Classification: Prints. Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Julia Feininger, 1956.
