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| Artist's Name: | Lyonel Feininger | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preferred medium: | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| birth year: | 1871 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality: | US | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| City: | New York | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lyonel Feininger - Profile |
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| Lyonel Feininger was born to parents of German American descent and grew up in New York City. He moved to Berlin in 1887 to study at the Königliche Akademie Berlin under Ernst Hancke, art schools in Berlin with Karl Schlabitz, and in Paris with sculptor Filippo Colarossi. He started working as a caricaturist for several magazines including Harper's Round Table, Harper's Young People, Humoristische Blätter, Lustige Blätter, Das Narrenschiff, Berliner Tageblatt and Ulk. Feininger married Clara Fürst, daughter of the painter Gustav Fürst, and they had two daughters. He also had several children with Julia Berg whom he later married. The artist is represented with drawings at the exhibitions of the annual Berlin Secession in the years 1901 through 1903. Feininger only started working as an artist at the age of 36, after having worked as a commercial caricaturist for twenty years for various newspapers and magazines in both the USA and Germany; he was a member of the Berliner Sezession in 1909, was associated with expressionist group Die Brücke, the Novembergruppe, Gruppe 1919, the Blaue Reiter circle and The Blue Four. Famously, he designed the cover for the Bauhaus 1919 manifesto: an expressionist woodcut 'cathedral'. He also taught at the Bauhaus for several years, teaching amongst many in his workshops, Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack (German/Australian (1893 - 1965), Hans Friedrich Grohs (German 1892 - 1981) and Margarete Koehler-Bittkow (German/American, 1898-1964). When the NSDAP came to power in 1933, the situation became unbearable for Feininger and his wife, who was partly Jewish. They moved to America after his work was exhibited in the 'degenerate art' (Entartete Kunst) in 1936, but before the 1937 exhibition in Munich. Feininger was one of the very few fine artists also to draw comic strips as a cartoonist. His short-lived strips, The Kin-der-Kids and Wee Willie Winkie's World were noted for their fey humor and graphic experimentation. (Wikipedia) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
important exhibitions from Lyonel Feininger |
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WHAT'S ON - current exhibitions with Lyonel FeiningerFrederick Hartt and American Abstraction in the 1950s04/05/2012 - 27/08/2012Stuart Davis Willem de Kooning Lyonel Feininger Arshile Gorky Arthur Dove Marsden Hartley Jackson Pollock ...
Saint Louis In Memory of Irene Ludwig29/11/2011 - 24/06/2012August Macke Fernand Léger Henri Matisse Roy Lichtenstein Lyonel Feininger Alexej von Jawlensky Jasper Johns ...
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artist's websiteexternal Link to the website of the artist or his gallery/institution: Lyonel Feininger |
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