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Lyonel Charles Feininger (July 17 1871 - January 13 1956); was a German-U.s. painter and caricaturist.

Feininger was natural to parents of German descent & grew higher within New York City. He moved to Berlin to study at a Königliche Akademie Berlin under Ernst Hancke and art schools in Berlin by owning Karl Schlabitz and in Paris by using sculptor Filippo Colarossi. He began working as an caricaturist for many magazines including Harper’s Round Table, Harper’s Young People, Humoristische Blätter, Lustige Blätter, Das Narrenschiff, Berliner Tageblatt and Ulk.

Feininger married Clara Fürst, girl of the painter Gustav Fürst and they got 2 girl. Late he experienced as well many toddlers together using Julia Berg & it late married.

A creative person is represented by owning drawings at a exhibitions of the annual Berlin Secession in the years 1901 through 1903.

Feiniger merely began working as an creative person at a age of 36, when with worked as a commercial caricaturist for twenty years for various newspapers & magazines around two a USA and Germany; he was a member of the Berliner Sezession in 1909, was associated with expressionistic class action Die Brücke, the Novembergruppe, Gruppe 1919, and The Blue Four. He as well taught at a Bauhaus for several years, beginning 1919.

While a NSDAP came to power in 1936, the situation became intolerable for Feininger & his married woman, world health organization was partially Jewish. It moved to United states when his function was exhibited in the 'degenerate art' (Entartete Kunst) in 1936, but prior to a 1937 exhibition in Munich.

Feininger was one of a super couple ticket creative person as well to draw comic strips as a cartoonist. His short-ephemeral strips, The Kin-Der-Kids and ''Wee Willie Winkie's World were noted for their fey humor and graphic experimentation.

His boy, Andreas Feininger, became famous as a lensman of New York City.

Selected works

1907, Der weiße Mann, (Collection Museo Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid) 1910, Straße im Dämmern, (Sprengel Museum, Hannover) 1913, Gelmeroda I, (Personal collection, New York) 1913, Leuchtbake, (Museum Folkwang, Essen) 1918, Teltow II, (Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin) 1925, Barfüßerkirche in Erfurt We, (Staatsgalerie Stuttgart) 1929, Halle, Am Trödel, (Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin) 1931, Die Türme über der Stadt (Halle), (Museum Ludwig, Köln) 1936, Gelmeroda XIII'', (Metropolitan Museum of Art, George A. Hearn)

Related Topics
Cubism Expressionism

New York Observer - Lyonel Feiningers Leap
Article describes the development of the artist from "Caricaturist to Cubist".

Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery - Lyonel Feininger
Short biography of the artist and information about the painting "Brooding Sky".

the artists.org - Lyonel Feininger
Portrait of the artist.

Artscene - Lyonel Feininger
Short essay by Kathy Zimmerer, includes several pictures of the artist.

Leslie Sacks - Lyonel Feininger
Presents three pictures from the artist: Der Hafen, Häuser, and Village Church.

Images of Feeling - Lyonel Feininger
Biography of the German American artist.

Lambiek.net - Lyonel Feininger
Discusses the early comics "The Kin-der-Kids" and "Willie Winkie's World" by the artist.






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