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Lyonel Feininger (American/German, 1871-1956)
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Lyonel Feininger
Hafendock (Harbor Dock) 1919
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Lyonel Feininger
Kirche und Dorf (Church and Village) 1919
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Lyonel Feininger
Kreuzende Segelschiffe 2 (Cruising Sailing Ships 2) 1919
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Lyonel Feininger
Ship at Sea (also titled Marine by the artist; Barke auf See) 1918
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Lyonel Feininger
The Gate (Das Tor) 1912
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Lyonel Feininger
The Old Mill 1911-1912
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Biography |
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1871 |
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Born Léonell Charles Feininger in New York, NY |
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1888 |
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Attended the Königliche Akademie where he studied under painter Ernst Hancke, Berlin, Germany |
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1889 |
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Worked as a caricaturist for the weekly magazine Humoristische Blätter, Berlin, Germany |
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1890 |
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Attended the Jesuit-run College St. Servais in Liège, Belgium |
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1891 |
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Returned to Berlin and enrolled at the art school of Karl Schlabitz, Berlin, Germany
Returned to the Königliche Akademie, Berlin, Germany |
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1892 |
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Moved to Paris where he spends the next six months and visited the art school of the Italian sculptor Filippo Colarossi, Paris, France |
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1942 |
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Recipient, acquisition prize for Gelmeroda XIII at the Artists for Victory Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, NY |
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1945 |
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Instructor Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, NC |
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1947 |
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Elected president of the Federation of American Painters and Sculptors |
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1955 |
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Elected member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters |
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1956 |
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Died in New York, NY |
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Exhibitions |
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2012 |
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Lyonel Feininger: Photographs 1928–1939, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
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2011 |
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Feininger at Harvard: Drawings, Watercolors, and Photographs, Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Germany and Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany |
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2011 |
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Sommergäste. Von Arp bis Werefkin - Die Klassische Moderne in Mecklenburg und Pommern, Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Germany |
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2010 |
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Feininger in the Harz, Moeller Fine Art, Berlin, Germany (solo) |
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2009 |
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Your Uncle Feininger: Comics, Fairy Tales, and Toys, Moeller Fine Art, Berlin, Germany (solo) |
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2007 |
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Lyonel Feininger: Unique and Rare Prints from Quedlinburg, Moeller Fine Art, New York, NY (solo) |
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2004 |
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Lyonel Feininger & Mark Tobey: Years of Friendship 1944 - 1956, Moeller Fine Art, New York, NY |
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1949 |
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA |
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1944 |
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Lyonel Feininger and Marsden Hartley, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
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1942 |
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Artists for Victory, Metropolitan Museum, New York, NY |
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1929 |
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Nineteen Living American Artists, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
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1920 |
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Anger-Museum, Erfurt, Germany |
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1904 |
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The Great Berlin Art Exhibition, Berlin, Germany |
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Literature |
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2007 |
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Mossinger, Ingrid. Lyonel Feininger: The Loebermann Collection Drawings/ Watercolors/ Prints. New York: Prestel Publishing, 2007 |
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1991 |
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Hess, Hans. Lyonel Feininger. Stuttgart, Germany: Kohlhammer, 1991 |
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