Lot 203 N

This view of massive sailing ships in full sail reveals the passion of the fervent ship painter T. Lux Feininger. Using an extreme horizontal format, he has created a panorama that reflects the breadth of the sea and impressively brings out the spatial depth of the ranked formation of ships.
With these magnificent tall ships he payed homage to a bygone maritime epoch, whose last representatives could still occasionally be seen in the early 1930s.
This work, which was created in the Pomeranian village of Mrzeżyno in 1932, was of special significance for the artist, because it led to his first success in the US, before he had even moved there. “I painted until the final minute of our stay, and one of the paintings from this period, the “Outward Bound Fleet (Auslaufende Flotte)”, proved to be my entry ticket for the “International Carnegie Exhibition” of 1932.” (T. Lux Feininger, Zwei Welten, p. 119). Ultimately, it was shown not in 1932, but at the Carnegie International of the following year, where it was hung prominently next to paintings by artists such as Hermann Max Pechstein, Georg Schrimpf and Erich Heckel.