Lyonel Feininger

* 17th JULY 1871 IN NEW YORK (USA)
† 13th JANUARY 1956 IN NEW YORK (USA)

The German-American Painter Lyonel Feininger is one of the most important protagonists of modern European painting. It was only after working as a commercial cartoonist that he first became an artist at 36 years of age. He quickly developed his signature style of painting in which he took objects and motives in his work and abstracted them in to pointed forms. From 1919 until 1930 he taught in the Graphic Studio at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau (from 1925). After a move to Berlin in 1933 he emigrated to the USA in 1937 where he lived and worked until his death in 1956. He is most well known for his Manhattan works during those later years. His work was displayed in 1937 in Munich in the exhibition ‘Degenerate Art’ organized by the National Socialist Party. His works are now to be found in the most important international collections and museums.