![Lyonel Feininger - Paddle Steamer at the Landing [1912]](http://c4.staticflickr.com/6/5350/30022787763_058db623d7_b.jpg)
This exemplifies Feininger's perspectival inventiveness which began to change radically in 1909. He began creating works utilising a new form of perspective that he called an “absolutely personal perspective’ in which he depicted objects and figures from multiple vantage points as if he were observing them from different distances in space.” During the summer of 1912 Feininger refined his artistic style and this perspectival device further, creating innovative pictorial representations of the natural world. Feininger's new approach referenced the aesthetic of French Cubism, which had taken hold of the avant-garde across Europe, but applied his reshuffling of space to grander subjects in an attempt to synthesise the rhythms, forms, perspectives and colours of his surrounding environment.
[Sotheby’s, New York - Oil on canvas, 40.3 x 48.5 cm]