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  Lyonel Feininger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lyonel Charles Feininger (July 17, 1871 – January 13, 1956); was a German-American painter and caricaturist.
Feininger was one of the very few fine artists also to draw comic strips as a cartoonist.
Feininger also had intermittent activity as a pianist and composer, with several piano compositions and fugues for organ extant.
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 Andreas Feininger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Andreas Bernhard Lyonel Feininger (27 December 1906 - 18 February 1999) was a French-born American photographer, and writer on photographic technique, noted for his dynamic fl-and-white scenes of Manhattan and studies of the structure of natural objects.
Feininger grew up and was educated as an architect in Germany, where his father painted and taught at Bauhaus.
Today, Feininger's photographs are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, London's Victoria and Albert Museum, and the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andreas_Feininger   (375 words)

  
 Lyonel Feininger
In 1906 verluist Lyonel feininger naar Parijs waar hij de duitse kunstenaars rond matisse leert kennen en notmoet de kubisten en delaunay.
In 1907 begon feininger te schilderen in een post-impressionistische stijl.
lyonel feininger nam deel aan de belangrijke tentoonstelling van der-blaue-reiter in de Sturm Galerie in Berlijn in 1913.
www.kunstbus.nl /verklaringen/lyonel+feininger.html   (368 words)

  
 Lyonel Feininger
Lyonel Feininger was born to German-American parents living in New York.
Feininger served on the faculty there, teaching drawing and painting and supervising the graphic workshop and printing press, until Adolph Hitler closed The Bauhaus in 1933.
Feininger lived in Germany for fifty years before returning to the U.S. with his German-born wife in 1936 when his work had been confiscated by the Nazis.
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 Lyonel Feininger - Bio
Lyonel Feininger was born in New York City on July 17, 1871.
Feininger’s parents were musicians who fostered their son’s love for music, an interest he retained throughout his life.
Feininger remained on the Bauhaus faculty until the Nazis closed the school in 1933.
www.phillipscollection.org /american_art/bios/feininger-bio.htm   (415 words)

  
 Lyonel Feininger
Lyonel Feininger (1871 - 1956), an American painter born of German-American parents, trained and lived in Germany for many years.
Feininger taught at the Bauhaus for several years.
He returned to America in 1936 after his work was exhibited in the 'degenerate art' (Entartete Kunst) by the Nazis, but before the 1937 exhibition in Munich.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ly/Lyonel_Feininger.html   (90 words)

  
 Lyonel Feininger, Oil Paintings, Lyonel Feininger Biography & Lyonel Feininger Gallery
Lyonel Feininger was a painter, illustrator, superb caricaturist and printmaker.
Feininger was deeply influenced by the Futurists and adopted prismatic style, with facets that are forming three-dimensional objects.
In 1919, Feininger became a founding member of the legendary Bauhaus school of art and architecture at Weimar and later in Dessau until it was closed in 1932.
www.huntfor.com /absoluteig/feininger.htm   (239 words)

  
 Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Lyonel Feininger
Lyonel Charles Feininger (1871-1956) is a well-known figure in the world of 20th century art, the kind you see in all the right reference works and overviews.
Feininger was already an accomplished artist when Tribune editor James Keeley asked him to create a comics feature for the paper — in fact, promotional materials billed him as "the famous German artist" (as he was by then living in his parents' homeland).
Lyonel Feininger's cartoon work may be ignored by some of the more hoity-toity art critics — but it isn't in danger of being swept under the table.
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 Lyonel Feininger The Caldwell Gallery
Feininger was a Cubist painter who depicted modern life and architecture such as cathedrals, factories and harbors.
In 1919, Feininger was invited to join the faculty of the Bauhaus, where he taught until Hitler shut it down in 1933.
Feininger was part of “The Blue Four”, along with Kandinsky, Klee and Von Jawensky.
www.caldwellgallery.com /bios/feiningerbio.html   (129 words)

  
 Feininger, Lyonel - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Feininger, Lyonel, 1871-1956, American painter and illustrator, b.
Feininger was fascinated by sailboats and skyscrapers, themes that appear in many of his oils and watercolors.
Feininger is represented in New York City in the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum, and his works are also included in other leading collections.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-feininge.html   (330 words)

  
 Lyonel Feininger on artnet
Lyonel Feininger (Léonell Charles Feininger) is born in New York City on July 17th.
Feininger is fascinated by the old architecture and atmosphere of Liège and Brussels.
Feininger marries Clara Fürst, daughter of the painter Gustav Fürst.
www.artnet.com /artist/674148/lyonel-feininger.html   (1788 words)

  
 Lyonel Feininger
The Hamburger Kunsthalle is currently preparing a comprehensive exhibition on the figurative art of Lyonel Feininger to be shown in autumn 2003.
Feininger did not begin painting until the age of 36, after he had worked for nearly two decades as a commercial cartoonist for various periodicals.
Feininger’s pictures feature a wide variety of different figures that appear alongside one another as if on stage, yet his aim in creating these unusual and incomparable works was neither to illustrate the literary source material nor to produce superficial comic effect.
www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de /archiv/seiten/en_feininger_1.html   (371 words)

  
 Acquavella: Lyonel Feininger's Biography
Lyonel Feininger was born in New York City in 1871, and studied art in Hamburg and Berlin.
Feininger met the avant-garde painter Robert Delaunay in Paris in 1911 who introduced him to Cubism.
By distortions, Feininger presents a strange world of familiar scenes in a dynamic structure through the use of Cubist transparent planes within an Expressionist mode.
www.acquavellagalleries.com /main/artist_bio.cfm?artist_id=138   (125 words)

  
 Lyonel Feininger Biography and Artworks - Leslie Sacks Fine Art
The son of German parents, Lyonel Feininger was born in New York in 1871.
Feininger strove to "transform in the mind and crystallize what one sees." Reality in his work does not rely strictly upon the representation of observed impressions but in the appropriation and transformation of perceptions into spatial and plastic, multidimensional pictorial structures.
Feininger's work is built up of layers of prismatic and crystalline forms, one above the other.
www.lesliesacks.com /gallery/artistPages/feininger/feiningerbio.htm   (362 words)

  
 Lyonel Feininger und die Ruine von Hoff / Trzesac
Für mich erschienen sie monumental wie in einer großen Kathedrale." (zitiert nach Lyonel Feininger, Städte und Küsten, Marburg 1992, Seite 38f).
Feininger bleibt 50 Jahre in Deutschland, heiratet und wird Vater.
Motive Feiningers sind neben der Ruine von Hoff der Grützturm und die Brücke in Treptow / Trzebiatow sowie das Bautor in Cammin / Kamien Pomorski.
www.ostsee-urlaub-polen.de /pobierowo/trzesac_feininger.htm   (437 words)

  
 Comic creator: Lyonel Feininger
Lyonel Feiniger was a wellknown Expressionist and Cubist painter, who also had an interesting career in comics.
The son of two professional musicians, New York City born Feininger was sent to Germany to study music in 1886.
Due to a dispute with his publishers, Feininger left these strips after a few months and went on with his career as a celebrated painter and artist.
www.lambiek.net /artists/f/feininger_l.htm   (161 words)

  
 Lyonel Feininger Biography
Lyonel Feininger was born on 17 July 1871 as the son of a concert violinist of German origin and a singer and pianist.
Feininger returned to Berlin in 1893, where he earned a living mainly as an illustrator until 1906.
Feininger's artistic breakthrough in the US only came in 1944 with a retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
www.lyonel-feininger.com   (364 words)

  
 Lyonel Feininger Summary
The American painter and illustrator Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was one of the leading artists of the German Bauhaus.
Lyonel Feininger was born on July 17, 1871, in New York, the son of German musicians who had emigrated to the United States.
Feininger showed an outspoken talent for caricature and became a contributor to the German humorous periodicals Ulk and Fliegende Blätter in Berlin, where he lived from 1894 to 1906.
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 Demuth Foundation
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956), painter and printmaker, has long been recognized as a modernist master in both the United States and Germany.
Appointed by Walter Gropius, Feininger taught drawing and painting and supervised the graphic workshop at the Bauhaus for fifteen years until it was closed by the Nazis in the 1933.
Feininger’s work was widely exhibited throughout the 1940s and 1950s in the United States and Germany.
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 Biographie: Lyonel Feininger, 1871-1956
Feininger unternimmt die erste Reise nach Rügen. Die Ostseeküste, die er von nun an regelmäßig besucht, inspiriert ihn während seiner gesamten Schaffenszeit.
Feininger kehrt nach Berlin zurück und arbeitet erneut als Karikaturist für verschiedene Zeitungen.
Feininger zieht mit dem Bauhaus nach Dessau um, läßt sich aber von seiner Lehrtätigkeit entbinden.
www.hdg.de /lemo/html/biografien/FeiningerLyonel/index.html   (433 words)

  
 Lyonel Feininger prints and posters at FulcrumGallery.com
An abstract modernist, Lyonel Feininger was part of the founding of the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany in 1919 along with Walter Gropius.
Feininger was born in the United States, but moved to Germany in 1887 to study music.
After he left Germany in the mid 1930s, several of his paintings that had been confiscated were shown in the Nazi government exhibition of "Degenerate Art" held in Munich in 1937.
www.fulcrumgallery.com /artist_feininger.aspx   (272 words)

  
 The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Lyonel Feininger
And it was the sea which animated the hand of Lyonel Feininger so long and so well; not the indomitable, raging waters of Baudelaire as much as the deep, impenetrable immensity of Melville's ocean world.
Lyonel Feininger was always one of the aristocrats.
During a Feininger exhibition at the Curt Valentine Gallery some years ago, a painter remarked that there was really no canvas in the show he would like to take home despite his superlative opinion of the exhibit.
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 Moeller Fine Art Ltd.: Lyonel Feininger 'Strollers - The Passing Scene'
The exhibition will survey Feininger’s early drawings and prints devoted to the human figure, with forty images executed in pencil, ink, watercolor and color crayon, as well as woodcuts, which reveal Feininger’s astute visual perceptions of people in daily life.
Feininger visited Braunlage in the Harz mountain range in 1917, where he began making woodcuts for the first time.
Feininger shared a large retrospective exhibition with Marsden Hartley at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1944, and another exhibition with Jacques Villon at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Boston in 1949.
www.artnet.com /event/18773/lyonel-feininger-strollers---the-passing-scene.html   (582 words)

  
 Porträt: Lyonel Feininger | MDR.DE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Lyonel Feininger: "Selbstbildnis mit Tonpfeife", 1910, zu besichtigen in der Feininger-Galerie Quedlinburg
Ein Jahr später hatte Feininger Kontakt zum "Blauen Reiter" - einer Gruppe um Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), der er sich jedoch nicht anschloss.
1917 hatte Feininger seine erste große Einzelausstellung in Herwarth Waldens (1878-1941) Galerie "Der Sturm".
www.mdr.de /kultur/ausstellung/2343550.html   (821 words)

  
 Photography - Andreas Feininger at GALLERY M
Son of the late acclaimed artist Lyonel Feininger, he was born in Paris in 1906, and graduated with highest honors in architecture from schools in Germany.
Through Feininger's trained eye, the beauty and intricacies of both the natural and man-made world were magnified and intensified.
Feininger had said that the city had attracted him since his earliest days as a photographer.
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 Lyonel Feininger. Kathedrale (Cathedral). 1919
It served as a cover design for the Bauhaus manifesto by architect Walter Gropius and was meant to symbolize both the unity and the spiritual basis of the various arts under the primacy of architecture.
Feininger's love of Gothic architecture is evident in this town gate, which he depicted in woodcuts and paintings.
After Feininger returned to the United States in 1937 to avoid Nazi accusations of being a "degenerate" artist, his printmaking was confined to a small group of lithographs made with noted printer George C. Miller in New York in the 1950s.
www.moma.org /collection/printable_view.php?object_id=63072   (574 words)

  
 Lyonel Feininger - Biografie WHO'S WHO.
In seinem Kunstschaffen wurde Lyonel Feininger stark vom Kubismus und dem Orphismus des Malers Robert Delaunay beeinflusst...
Lyonel Feininger folgte einem Ruf an das Bauhaus-Institut und wurde dort als Meister der Formlehre tätig.
In seiner Motivik wandte sich Lyonel Feininger hauptsächlich Städten, gotischen Bauwerken wie in dem Titel „Ostchor des Domes zu Halle (1930) und Seenlandschaften zu.
www.rasscass.com /templ/te_bio.php?PID=781&RID=1   (694 words)

  
 Lyonel Feininger
Feininger was born in New York City, son of concert violinist Carl Feininger.
Feininger fils remembered growing up in an atmosphere of music that continued to influence his art throughout his life.
Feininger painted a monumental set of three murals for the Palace of Fine Arts, New York World's Fair in 1939.
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 Lyonel Feininger
Obwohl in den großen Ausstellungen, die sich in der Vergangenheit dem Werk Feiningers widmeten, das figürliche Werk als Beleg einer frühen Werkphase auch präsent war, ist speziell diesem wichtigen Teil innerhalb des gesamten Schaffens von Lyonel Feininger bislang noch nie eine umfangreiche Ausstellung gewidmet worden.
Jahrhunderts, den großen Werken von Balzac, Sue und Hugo, schuf Feininger innerhalb kurzer Zeit einen inhaltlichen Rahmen für seine Kompositionen, in denen die unterschiedlichsten Figurentypen wie auf einer Bühne nebeneinander auftreten.
Feininger wollte in diesen ungewöhnlichen und vergleichslosen Bildern weder eine Illustration der literarischen Vorlage schaffen noch oberflächliche Komik erzeugen.
www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de /archiv/seiten/feininger.html   (401 words)

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