Lyonel Feininger was an American-German artist and member of the German Expressionist movement. Feininger work is often cited as combination of Cubism’s angular shapes with Expressionism’s emotionally charged paint handling. “Each individual work serves as an expression of our most personal state of mind at that particular moment and of the inescapable, imperative need for release by means of an appropriate act of creation: in the rhythm, form, color, and mood of a picture,” he once mused. Born Léonell Charles Feininger on July 17, 1871 in New York, NY, the artist traveled to Germany to study music initially, but once there turned his attention towards visual art. He studied at the Hamburger Gewerbeschule and ...