This work is hand signed in ink by the artist "Feininger" at the upper right corner.
Provenance: The Collection of Peter Kamnitzer. Peter Kamnitzer (1922-2016) was a renowned and respected violist. He was a graduate of the Juilliard School, New York and a longstanding and member of “La Salle Quartet”, where he was a violist for 40 years. “La Salle Quartet” was established in New York City by Jewish refugees from Europe and was well known for their recordings of Beethoven, Schoenberg, Zemlinsky, Berg and Webern, which were available on Deutsche Grammophon. Kamnitzer’s favorued instrument was the “Medici” viola made by Girolamo Amati and which had for many years been considered to have been created by Stradivarius – but subsequently was discovered to be an Amati which was worked on by Stradivarius. The artist Lyonel Feininger was related to Kamnitzer’s mother and this work was acquired directly from the artist.