Ouverture & Your Uncle Feininger: Comics, Fairy Tales, and Toys

Achim Moeller is pleased to announce the opening of a new gallery in the heart of Europe's contemporary art scene. Under the direction of Stephanie Moeller, Moeller Fine Art Berlin will open its doors on 28 April, 2009 at Tempelhofer Ufer 11. The gallery will be open Tuesday - Saturday, 11 - 6pm. The Belle Epoque Palais Eger, commissioned by brothers Carl and Paul Eger in 1881 and designed by architects Gustav Knoblauch and Hermann Wex, was purchased in 1890 by Prince Aribert von Anhalt. In the 1980s and 1990s, the collector Hans-Hermann Stober used the courtyard carriage house as a meeting place for the Berlin contemporary art world. Today, redesigned by architect Thomas Kröger, the ground floor will continue this rich history and begin the next chapter of Moeller Fine Art.

In addition to the New York gallery's established program of modern masters, Moeller Fine Art Berlin will show international mid-career and emerging artists. The opening exhibition, "Ouverture", will include video installations by Adel Abidin (b. 1975, Iraq); sculpture by Mildred Howard (b. 1945, USA) and Jeanne Silverthorne (b. 1950, USA); works on paper by Tom Molloy (b. 1964, Ireland), Matthias Düwel (b. 1957, Germany), and Eric Fonteneau (b. 1954, France); book objects by Hubertus Gojowczyk (b. 1943, Germany); paintings by Piero Dorazio (1927-2005, Italy); as well as masterworks by Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), Paul Klee (1879-1940), Gino Severini (1883-1966), Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), and Mark Tobey (1890-1976).

As part of its inaugural exhibition, Moeller Fine Art Berlin will also present "Your Uncle Feininger: Comics, Fairy Tales, and Toys", which will investigate little-known aspects in the work of Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956). For the first time, the preparatory figure and nature studies for Feininger's comic strips, The Kin-der-Kids and Wee Willie Winkie's World, will be shown alongside original broadsheets from The Chicago Sunday Tribune, where they were published in 1906-1907. The exhibition will also include 68 hand-carved and painted wooden figures and houses created between 1925 and 1955. This unique group is the largest of its kind in the world, and belonged to the Feininger's eldest son, Andreas. In 1913, Lyonel Feininger also designed a series of toy trains for the Munich manufacturer Otto Löwenstein. Due to the outbreak of the First World War, however, only the prototypes were realized. The preparatory drawings for these were only recently discovered, and are being shown at Moeller Fine Art Berlin for the first time. In addition, five drawings of 1908 for Hans Bondy's edition of Norwegische Volksmärchen (Norwegian Folktales) will be shown.

Moeller Fine Art was established in London in 1972 and moved to New York 1984. For more than 35 years, Achim Moeller has been a leading art dealer, expert, and advisor specializing in 19th and 20th century masterworks with emphasis on Impressionism, German Expressionism, the Bauhaus, Dada, and Surrealism. Moeller Fine Art is a member of the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) and the Syndicat National des Antiquaires Négociants en Objets d'Art Tableaux Anciens et Modernes (SNA), France. The gallery shows regularly at leading art fairs worldwide, including Art Basel, Art Basel Miami Beach, and The Art Show in New York City.

Ouverture & Your Uncle Feininger: Comics, Fairy Tales, and Toys
Lyonel Feininger