Lyonel Feininger
Lyonel Charles Feininger (July 17, 1871 – January 13, 1956); was
a German-American painter and caricaturist.
Feininger was born to parents of German descent and grew up in New York
City. He moved to Berlin, in 1887, to study at the Königliche Akademie
Berlin under Ernst Hancke and art schools in Berlin with Karl Schlabitz
and in Paris with sculptor Filippo Colarossi. He started working as a
caricaturist for several magazines including Harper's Round Table, Harper's
Young People, Humoristische Blätter, Lustige Blätter, Das Narrenschiff,
Berliner Tageblatt and Ulk.
Feininger married Clara Fürst, daughter of the painter Gustav Fürst
and they had two daughters. Later he had also several children together
with Julia Berg and they later married.
The artist is represented with drawings at the exhibitions of the annual
Berlin Secession in the years 1901 through 1903.
Feininger only started working as an artist at the age of 36, after having
worked as a commercial caricaturist for twenty years for various newspapers
and magazines in both the USA and Germany; he was a member of the Berliner
Sezession in 1909, was associated with expressionist group Die Brücke,
the Novembergruppe, Gruppe 1919, the Blaue Reiter circle and The Blue
Four. Famously, he designed the cover for the Bauhaus 1919 manifesto -
an expressionist woodblock 'cathedral'. He also taught at the Bauhaus
for several years.
When the NSDAP came to power in 1933, the situation became unbearable
for Feininger and his wife, who was partly Jewish. They moved to America
after his work was exhibited in the 'degenerate art' (Entartete Kunst)
in 1936, but before the 1937 exhibition in Munich.
Feininger was one of the very few fine artists also to draw comic strips
as a cartoonist. His short-lived strips, The Kin-Der-Kids and Wee Willie
Winkie's World were noted for their fey humor and graphic experimentation.
Feininger also had intermittent activity as a pianist and composer, with
several piano compositions and fugues for organ extant.
His son, Andreas Feininger, became famous as a photographer of New York
City.
Lyonel Feininger. (2006, December 19). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
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