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1) Bamberg

Erich Heckel, Lyonel Feininger, Gino Ritter von Finetti, Wilhelm Maxon

Leicester Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester

This gift of 11 German Expressionist works, most notably including watercolours, prints and drawings by Lyonel Feininger, is a significant addition to New Walk Museum & Art GalleryÂ’s holdings of early 20th-century German art. The donorÂ’s father, Stefan Pauson, was the brother-in-law of art collector Alfred Hess, whose collection formed the core of the New Walk MuseumÂ’s 1944 exhibition Mid-European Art and subsequently laid the foundation for the museumÂ’s present collection.

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Date supported

2014

Medium and material

1) coloured chalks; 2) etching; 3) pen, ink and watercolour; 4) pen, ink and coloured chalks; 5) pen, ink and coloured chalks; 6) charcoal; 7) pen, ink and watercolour; 8) pen, ink and watercolour; 9) pen, ink and watercolour; 10) gouache; 11) colour

Dimensions

1) 50.8 × 65.4cm (20 × 25 3/4in.) 2) unknown 3) 18.4 × 25.1cm (7 1/4 × 9 7/8in.) 4) 14 × 7.3cm (5 1/2 × 2 7/8in.) 5) 14 × 7.3cm (5 1/2 × 2 7/8in.) 6) 25.4 × 20.3cm (10 × 8in.) 7) 20 × 34.9c

Gifted by

Peter and Lai-ngau Pauson

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