Feininger, Lyonel

Feininger, Lyonel

▪ American artist
born July 17, 1871, New York City
died Jan. 13, 1956, New York City

      American artist whose paintings and teaching activities at the Bauhaus brought a new compositional discipline and lyrical use of colour into the predominantly Expressionistic art of Germany.

      Feininger left the United States for Germany in 1887 to study music but decided to become an artist instead. He studied painting in Hamburg, Berlin, and Paris between 1887 and 1893 and then worked as a cartoonist for German humour magazines and the Chicago Tribune. About 1910, under the influence of the Cubists—especially Robert Delaunay—he began to paint important canvases and soon established his own style, utilizing prismatic interpenetrating planes of colour. This work, with its intersecting light rays, so impressed the artists of the avant-garde Blaue Reiter (Blaue Reiter, Der) (“Blue Rider”) group that Feininger was invited to exhibit with them in Berlin in 1913.

      After World War I Feininger joined the staff of the Bauhaus workshops. The structural direction of his own work was closely akin to the aim of the Bauhaus: a synthesis of art, science, and technology. In 1936, after the Nazis came to power, Feininger returned to the United States, where he remained.

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