Lyonel Charles Feininger (July 17, 1871 - January 13, 1956); was a German-American painter and caricaturist. July 17 is the 198th day (199th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 167 days remaining. ... 1871 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... January 13 is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The following list is a partial list of painters. ...

Feininger was born to parents of German descent and grew up in New York City. He moved to Berlin 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 an caricaturist for several magazines including Harper’s Round Table, Harper’s Young People, Humoristische Blätter, Lustige Blätter, Das Narrenschiff, Berliner Tageblatt and Ulk. Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture. ...   Berlin? (pronounced: , German ) is the capital of Germany and its largest city; down from 4. ... The Berliner Tageblatt was a newspaper founded by publisher Rudolf Mosse in Berlin and first brought out on January 1, 1872. ... The German satirical magazine Ulk was printed from 1872 until 1933 by the publisher Rudolf Mosse. ...

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. 1901 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1903 has the latest occurring solstices and equinoxes for 400 years, because the Gregorian calendar hasnt had a leap year for seven years or a century leap year since 1600. ...

Feiniger 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, and The Blue Four. He also taught at the Bauhaus for several years, beginning 1919. 1909 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Die Brücke (The Bridge) was a group of German expressionist artists formed in Dresden in 1905. ... The November Group (German: Novembergruppe) was a group of German expressionist artists. ... The Bauhaus Bauhaus is the common term for the Staatliches Bauhaus, an art and architecture school in Germany that operated from 1919 to 1933, and for the approach to design that it developed and taught. ... 1919 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

When the NSDAP came to power in 1936, 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. The Nazi swastika The National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), better known as the NSDAP or the Nazi Party was a political party that was led to power in Germany by Adolf Hitler in 1933. ... 1936 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler and Adolf Ziegler visit the Nazi exhibition of degenerate art. ... 1936 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Munich: Frauenkirche and Town Hall steeple Munich (German: München (pronounced listen) is the state capital of the German state of Bavaria. ...

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. This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... A cartoonist at work. ...

His son, Andreas Feininger, became famous as a photographer of New York City. Andreas Feininger (1906-1999) was an American photographer of German heritage born in Paris, the son of the painter Lyonel Feininger. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture. ...

Selected works

• 1907, Der weiße Mann, (Collection Museo Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid)
• 1910, Straße im Dämmern, (Sprengel Museum, Hannover)
• 1913, Gelmeroda I, (Private collection, New York)
• 1913, Leuchtbake, (Museum Folkwang, Essen)
• 1918, Teltow II, (Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin)
• 1925, Barfüßerkirche in Erfurt I, (Staatsgalerie Stuttgart)
• 1929, Halle, Am Trödel, (Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin)
• 1931, Die Türme über der Stadt (Halle), (Museum Ludwig, Köln)
• 1936, Gelmeroda XIII, (Metropolitan Museum of Art, George A. Hearn)

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Related Topics

• Cubism
• Expressionism

Woman with a guitar by Georges Braque, 1913 Cubist house in Prague Cubism was an avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture in the early 20th century. ... On White II by Wassily Kandinsky, 1923. ...

References

• Feininger's biography at artnet

External Links

• Feininger's cartoons
• Toonopedia: Lyonel Feininger
• Art Gallery - Lyonel Feininger