Artist: Lyonel Feininger (1871 - 1956)
Nationality: American
Movement: Bauhaus School
Media: Painting
Influences:

Biography:
Born in New York to German Jewish parents, Lyonel Charles Adrian Feininger studied art in Munich. He began his career as a political cartoonist, but began painting upon his arrival in Paris in 1907. He met Robert Delaunay and was influenced by the Cubism and Orphism movements. He joined the Blaue Reiter group on 1913 and was a colleague of Kandinsky while teaching at the Bauhaus in Weimar and in Dessau. When the Nazi’s rose to power, Feininger returned to the United States and helped found the New Bauhaus in Chicago. He died in his birthplace of New York City in 1956.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Lyonel Feininger Peaceful watercolor and ink 1942
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Lyonel Feininger Gelmeroda woodcut 1918
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Lyonel Feininger Anglers (With Sun) Woodcut 1941
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Lyonel Feininger Anglers (With Sun) Woodcut 1941
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Lyonel Feininger Gelmeroda W.C. 1920
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Lyonel Feininger Title: Gross-Kromsdorf, I Date: 1915 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: H.39 x
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Lyonel Feininger Off the Coast Lith 1951
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Lyonel Feininger Ship W.C. circa 1923
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Lyonel Feininger Boat on a River W.C. 1920
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Lyonel Feininger Sailing Ships watercolor 1931
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Lyonel Feininger Spaziergaenger (Promenaders) watercolor 1918
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Lyonel Feininger Church with a Tall Tower Woodcut 1920
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Lyonel Feininger Volcano Woodcut 19th - 20th century
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Lyonel Feininger Towering House Woodcut 1918
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Lyonel Feininger Hansaflotte (Hanseatic Fleet) W.C. 1918
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Lyonel Feininger Street in Paris Woodcut 1918
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Lyonel Feininger Bollwerk pen and black ink and watercolor on wove paper 1929
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Lyonel Feininger Regentag am Strande (Rainy Day at the Beach) Woodcut 1921
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Lyonel Feininger Windmill Woodcut on yellow paper 1919
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Lyonel Feininger Anglers at the River (Angler am Fluss) W.C. circa 1920
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Lyonel Feininger Title: Hopfgarten Date: 1920 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: H.32-1/4 x W.25
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Lyonel Feininger Die Giebel in L¸neberg (Old gables in L¸neberg) Woodcut 19th - 20th century
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Lyonel Feininger - Markwippach 1917 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Lyonel Feininger - Lighthouse I 1947 watercolor The Hyde Collection American
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Lyonel Feininger - Zirchow VII 1918 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Lyonel Feininger - Uprising 1910 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art American
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Lyonel Feininger - Hopfgarten 1920 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts American
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Lyonel Feininger - Das Tor (The Gate) 1912 etching and drypoint The Museum of Modern Art German
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Lyonel Feininger - Zirchow VI 1916 oil on canvas Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Lyonel Feininger - Wood Road 1944 watercolor, pastel, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Lyonel Feininger - Gables I, Luneburg 1925 oil on canvas Smith College Museum of Art American
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Lyonel Feininger - The Green Bridge II 1916 oil on canvas North Carolina Museum of Art American
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Lyonel Feininger - Gross-Kromsdorf I 1915 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts American
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Lyonel Feininger - Cathedral (Cammin) 1942 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Lyonel Feininger - The Bicycle Race 1912 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Lyonel Feininger - Storm Brewing 1939 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Lyonel Feininger - The Mill in Spring 1935 oil on canvas Currier Museum of Art American
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Lyonel Feininger - Harbor at Neppermin 1915 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago German
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Lyonel Feininger - Village Street 1927-29 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago German
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Clemens Röseler, ca. 1928 Lux Feininger (American, born Germany, born 1910)Gelatin silver print; 11.3 x
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Das Kunstblatt 1, no. 3 (1917) Deluxe edition, Lyonel Feininger (United States, New York, New York City, 1871 - 1956) , 1917, Printed material with one lithograph and one etching on wove paper
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Lyonel Feininger - Bridge with Underpath Between Buildings, Manhatten 1927 charcoal Arkansas Arts Center American
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To all artists, Lyonel Feininger (United States, New York, New York City, 1871 - 1956) , 1919, Printed material
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To all artists, Lyonel Feininger (United States, New York, New York City, 1871 - 1956) , 1919, Printed material
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To all artists, Lyonel Feininger (United States, New York, New York City, 1871 - 1956) , 1919, Printed material
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Das Holzschnittbuch, Lyonel Feininger (United States, New York, New York City, 1871 - 1956) , 1921, Printed material and four woodcuts on wove paper
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Das Holzschnittbuch, Lyonel Feininger (United States, New York, New York City, 1871 - 1956) , 1921, Printed material and four woodcuts on wove paper
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Die Fibel, Lyonel Feininger (United States, New York, New York City, 1871 - 1956) , 1919, Three woodcuts and two lithographs on J. W. Zanders laid paper
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Die Fibel, Lyonel Feininger (United States, New York, New York City, 1871 - 1956) , 1919, Three woodcuts and two lithographs on J. W. Zanders laid paper
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Die Fibel, Lyonel Feininger (United States, New York, New York City, 1871 - 1956) , 1919, Three woodcuts and two lithographs on J. W. Zanders laid paper
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Das Kestnerbuch, Lyonel Feininger (United States, New York, New York City, 1871 - 1956) , 1919, Printed material with six woodcuts and six lithographs on wove paper
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Das Kestnerbuch, Lyonel Feininger (United States, New York, New York City, 1871 - 1956) , 1919, Printed material with six woodcuts and six lithographs on wove paper
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Das Kestnerbuch, Lyonel Feininger (United States, New York, New York City, 1871 - 1956) , 1919, Printed material with six woodcuts and six lithographs on wove paper
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Das Kestnerbuch, Lyonel Feininger (United States, New York, New York City, 1871 - 1956) , 1919, Printed material with six woodcuts and six lithographs on wove paper
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Das Kestnerbuch, Lyonel Feininger (United States, New York, New York City, 1871 - 1956) , 1919, Printed material with six woodcuts and six lithographs on wove paper
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Das Kestnerbuch, Lyonel Feininger (United States, New York, New York City, 1871 - 1956) , 1919, Printed material with six woodcuts and six lithographs on wove paper
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Das Kestnerbuch, Lyonel Feininger (United States, New York, New York City, 1871 - 1956) , 1919, Printed material with six woodcuts and six lithographs on wove paper
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Das Kestnerbuch, Lyonel Feininger (United States, New York, New York City, 1871 - 1956) , 1919, Printed material with six woodcuts and six lithographs on wove paper
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Jahrbuch der jungen Kunst, vol. I (1920), Lyonel Feininger (United States, New York, New York City, 1871 - 1956) , 1920, Printed material with four lithographs, three woodcuts and one linoleum cut on wove paper
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Jahrbuch der jungen Kunst, vol. I (1920), Lyonel Feininger (United States, New York, New York City, 1871 - 1956) , 1920, Printed material with four lithographs, three woodcuts and one linoleum cut on wove paper

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (14)
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Seattle Art Museum: Anselm Kiefer and Germanic Tradition
This exhibition combines paintings, works on paper, and sculpture from SAMs permanent collection along with key loans. The other artists include Max Beckmann, Josef Breitenbach, Marcel Breuer, Lyonel Feininger, Markus Lüpertz, Albert Renger-Patzs...
Marlborough Gallery: Dale Chihuly: Mille Fiori
Comprised of approximately 350 handblown glass elements on a steel base, Millie Fiori IV suggests a luscious tropical garden landscape of flowers, gourds, reeds and fantastical foliage in a stunning range of colors: aquamarine, cobalt, teal, verm...
Museum of Photographic Arts: LAST CHANCE: Facts Showered with Light
Like the written word, the photograph fixes perfectly but translates poorly, producing images altogether more luminous, more immense, more mesmerizing and quixotic than what we might actually have seen or...
Bauhaus Archiv, Museum für Gestaltung: Donation Dora Hartwig
An item of very special importance is a copy of Max Beckmann’s Apocalypse dedicated to Josef Hartwig. Until he was dismissed in 1933, Beckmann taught with Hartwig at the Frankfurt Art School. The book was produced in a very small wartime print ru...
Scottish National Portrait Gallery: Photographs by Josef Breitenbach
Breitenbach began taking photographs while travelling as a wine merchant with his family's firm in the 1920s. He established a successful portrait studio in his native Munich in 1932, but as a Jew involved in left-wing politics, was forced to fle...
UCLA Hammer Museum: Masters of American Comics
Following its Los Angeles debut, the exhibition travels to the Milwaukee Art Museum (April 27 – August 13, 2006) and The Jewish Museum, New York, and the Newark Museum, New Jersey (September 15, 2006 – January 28, 2007). Unprecedented in it...
University of Richmond Museums, Marsh Gallery: Visions from the Soul: Woodcuts by Hans Friedrich Grohs
As a young master student at the Bauhaus in Weimar, Grohs studied under Lyonel Feininger but he left the academy in 1919 following a controversial dispute with founder Walter Gropius regarding the sacrifice of German “identity” for the increasing ...
Laurence Miller Gallery: German Photography: From the Bauhaus to the Bechers
German photography in the 1920's and 1930's evolved through two highly articulated but divergent approaches: the school of objectivity, and the school of experimental possibilities. The objective approach will be represented by the landscapes o...
University of Richmond Museums, Marsh Gallery: oots of Creativity: Landscapes by Hans Friedrich Grohs
As a young master student at the Bauhaus in Weimar, Grohs studied under Lyonel Feininger, but he left the academy in 1919 following a controversial dispute with founder Walter Gropius regarding the sacrifice of German “identity” for the increasing...
Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard: Before Expressionism: Art in Germany circa 1903. An Exhibition for the 100th Anniversary of the Busch-Reisinger Museum
The Museum’s deep and wide-ranging collection includes important holdings of Austrian Secession art, German expressionism, 1920s abstraction, and material related to the Bauhaus, including archives of Lyonel Feininger and Walter Gropius. The Museu...
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum: Jimmy Ernst: Transcending the Surreal
This retrospective exhibition features over 35 major paintings. It covers five decades of his art and looks at how he absorbed and transcended Surrealism to create his own unique mode of abstract painting. Jimmy Ernst’s paintings were influenced...
Phillips Auctioneers: Phillips, de Pury and Luxembourg to Auction Hoener Collection of 20th Century German Art
Phillips, de Pury and Luxembourg will auction the Diethelm Hoener Collection of 20th Century German Art on Monday, November 5 at 11:00 am. Among the highlights of the collection are two rare beach scenes by Max Liebermann, which illustrate...
Palazzo Ducale: Arti and Architettura: 1900 - 2000
A utopian adventure, encroaching sometimes into “archisculpture”, whose protagonists – artists and architects from Kazimir Malevich to Vladmir Tatlin, from Antonio Sant'Elia to Giuseppe Terragni, from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to Piet Mondrian, f...
Haus der Kunst: GROTESQUE! 130 Years of Witty Art
GROTESQUE! 130 Years of Witty Art presents works possessing those characteristics attributed to the concept of the grotesque in Meyers Konversationslexikon (an influential encyclopaedia) in 1895: "The result of a humour which - apparently without ...

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