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Lyonel Feininger’s painting “Halle, am Trödel” from 1929

Cityscape with buildings in warm earth tones and a bright sky in the background, abstracted composition.
Lyonel Feininger, “Halle, am Trödel”, 1929, Oil on canvas, 100 x 82 cm
Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025

  • In 1979, the State of Berlin acquired Lyonel Feininger’s “Halle, am Trödel” from the Galerie Nierendorf in Berlin and transferred the painting to the Bauhaus-Archiv as a permanent loan (inv. no. 3698 LB). Numerous features related to its provenance, such as a number on the back of the painting, suggested that it came from a context of injustice.

    Read the case history as a PDF.

    In Part 1 of the video series “Behind the Object”, our provenance researcher Corinna Alexandra Rader follows the trail of Lyonel Feininger’s painting “Halle, am Trödel”:
Behind the Object #1: Lyonel Feininger's “Halle am Trödel”
Production: 3b produktion | Büro für Bewegtes Bild Head of project Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung: Esned Nezic