Lyonel Feininger
Sign in to saveAlso known as Lyonel Charles Adrian Feininger, Lyonel Charles Feininger, Léonell Charles Feininger, Charles Léonell Feininger, Charles Leonell Feininger, Leonell Charles Feininger, lionel feininger, l. feininger
German-American painter (1871–1956)
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1871
- Active to
- 1956
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- 41
- Total plays
- 97
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1871-07-17 ) July 17, 1871, New York City, U.S.
- Died
- January 13, 1956 (1956-01-13) (aged 84), New York City, U.S.
- Known for
- Painting, Cartoonist , Photography
- Movement
- Expressionism , Cubism , Blaue Reiter , Die Brücke , Berlin Secession , Novembergruppe
- Elected
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (1955)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Place of death
- New York City
- Child
- Andreas Feininger
- Occupation
- composer
- Educated at
- Académie Colarossi
- Employer
- Bauhaus
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- Documenta III
- Student of
- Robert Delaunay
- Movement
- Expressionism
- Image
- Lyonel Feininger by Hugo Erfurth 1941.jpg
- Work location
- Germany
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- Commons category
- Lyonel Feininger
- date of death
- 1956-07-31
- date of birth
- 1871-06-17
- Commons Creator page
- Lyonel Feininger
- member of
- Berlin Secession
- nickname
- Papileo
- described by source
- Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
- start of work period
- 1893-01-01
- end of work period
- 1949-01-01
- pseudonym
- Feininger, Charles Léonell
Sources (10)
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Works in European collections
9 objects attributed to Lyonel Feininger, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Zottelstedt
Beleuchtete Häuserzeile II
Ribnitz at the gourd
moon rise
Manhad
Cyclists
Letter from Walter Gropius, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Lyonel Feininger, Oskar Schlemmer, Georg Muche and László Moholy-Nagy from District of Friends of the Bauhaus & lt; Dessau & gt; to Gerhart Hauptmann
Zwei Dampfer
"Poor Pappa"
~12 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Lyonel Charles Adrian Feininger (/ˈfaɪnɪŋər/; July 17, 1871 – January 13, 1956) was a German-American painter, and a leading exponent of Expressionism. He also worked as a caricaturist and comic strip artist. He was born and grew up in New York City. In 1887 he traveled to Europe and studied art in Hamburg, Berlin and Paris. He started his career as a cartoonist in 1894 and met with much success in this area. He also worked as a commercial caricaturist for 20 years. At the age of 36, he began to work as a fine artist. His work, characterized above all by prismatically broken, overlapping forms in translucent colors, with many references to architecture and the sea, made him one of the most important artists of classical modernism. Furthermore he produced a large body of photographic works and created several piano compositions and fugues for organ.
Life and work
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lyonel Feininger” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.