Feininger, Lyonel (1871-1956)
Lyonel Feininger was born in New York, the son of two German-born musicians. He showed talent as a violinist while very young and was sent to Germany to study music at the age of sixteen. He decided, however, to study art and after preliminary studies went to Paris. Like so many artists of the time, he was influenced by Cubism in the search for his own method of expression. His distinctly personal style is both Cubist and architectural in derivation.
Feininger painted buildings, churches, town landscapes, and seascapes. These are constructed of transparent or translucent overlapping geometrical planes that catch light like prisms or reflect it from solid surfaces.
Franz Marc invited him to join Blaue Reiter and Feininger exhibited with them at the First German Autumn Salon in 1913. He was also one of the four original artists who taught at the Bauhaus and he remained with the school until it was closed by the Nazis in 1933. With Klee, Kandinsky, and Jawlensky, Feininger formed a loosely linked group called Die Blallen Vier (The Four Blues), that exhibited in Germany and the United States in 1924. Feininger, who also wrote for newspapers, remained in Germany until 1937 when he left for political reasons. Returning to New York, he set up a school of his own in which he taught and painted until his death in 1956. |
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