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Feininger, Lyonel (1871–1956) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to German Literature (3 ed.)
..., Lyonel (New York, 1871–1956 , New York), an American who studied painting in Germany and France, living in Germany from 1887 to 1937 . He was associated with the groups Die Brücke and Der blaue Reiter , and from 1919 to 1933 taught at the Bauhaus . He was influenced by...
Feininger, Lyonel (17 July 1871) Reference library
The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art
...Lyonel Feininger: Caricatures, Comic Strips, Illustrations, 1888–1915 (exh. cat. by U. Luckhardt , Hamburg, Mus. Kst & Gew., 1981) K. Hartley : “ Lyonel Feininger for Scotland, ” Burl. Mag. , cxxvii/993 (1983), pp. 893–5 U. Luckhardt : Lyonel Feininger (Munich, 1989) P. Romanus , ed.: Lyonel Feininger: Die Halle-Bilder (Munich, 1991) W. Büche , ed.: Lyonel Feininger, Gelmeroda: Ein Maler und sein Motiv (Stuttgart, 1995) F. Deuchler : Lyonel Feininger: Sein Weg zum Bauhaus-Meister (Leipzig, 1996) U. Luckhardt and M. Faass : Lyonel Feininger: Die...
Feininger, Lyonel (1871–1956) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Western Art
..., Lyonel ( 1871–1956 ). American-German painter. Born in New York, Feininger travelled to Germany in 1887 to study music. However, drawing lessons at the Kunstgewerbeschule, Hamburg, and the Berlin Akademie led him to become a cartoonist and until 1909 he contributed work to German and American magazines. In 1911 he exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants, Paris , and became aware of Orphism , early Cubism , and Futurism , each of which played a part in the development of his personal style of angular lines and transparent intersecting...
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World Encyclopedia
..., Lyonel ( 1871–1956 ) US painter . He left the USA for Europe in 1887 and became involved with cubism in 1912 . He evolved a distinctive style of figurative scenes in straight-edged patterns of interconnecting planes, coloured to resemble prisms. He exhibited with the Blaue Reiter ( 1913 ) and taught at the Bauhaus ( 1919–33 ). In 1937 he returned to the USA and produced some of his best work, such as Dawn ( 1938...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (5 ed.)
..., Lyonel ( b New York , 17 July 1871 ; d New York , 13 Jan. 1956 ). American painter who spent most of his career in Europe. He was born into a German-American musical family; in 1887 he moved to Germany with the intention of studying music, but he turned instead to art. He had drawings published in Berlin's humorous weeklies and by the turn of the century he was Germany's leading political cartoonist. In 1906–8 he lived in Paris and under the influence of Robert Delaunay turned seriously to painting. By 1912 he had evolved a personal style...
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The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists (2 ed.)
..., Lyonel ( 1871–1956 ). Painter and printmaker Generally based on architectural or maritime subjects, his lyrical, even mystical compositions feature fragmented, overlapping, and often translucent planes derived from cubism. Glowing color abets transcendental aspirations to achieve a soaring, idiosyncratic expression in the tradition of romantic painters such as Caspar David Friedrich . Born in New York, Léonell Charles Adrian Feininger spent most of his adult life abroad. After training as a violinist, between 1887 and 1893 he studied...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Art (3 ed.)
..., Lyonel ( b New York, 17 July 1871 ; d New York, 13 Jan. 1956 ). American painter who spent most of his career in Europe. He was born into a German-American musical family; in 1887 he moved to Germany with the intention of studying music, but he turned instead to art. He had drawings published in Berlin’s humorous weeklies and by the turn of the century he was Germany’s leading political cartoonist. In 1906–8 he lived in Paris and under the influence of Robert Delaunay turned seriously to painting. By 1912 he had evolved a personal style...
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A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art (3 ed.)
..., Lyonel ( 1871–1956 ) American painter , printmaker , and caricaturist who spent most of his career in Europe. He was born in New York into a German-American musical family, and in 1887 he went to Germany with the intention of studying music (he played the violin and also composed); although he later maintained that ‘Music has always been the first influence in my life’, he turned instead to art, studying in Hamburg, Berlin, and Paris between 1887 and 1893 . After returning from Berlin to Paris, he became a full-time caricaturist and by the...
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Feininger, Andreas (27 Dec 1906) Reference library
The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art
..., Andreas ( b Paris , 27 Dec 1906 ; d New York , 18 Feb 1999 ), photographer . Andreas Feininger was the son of Lyonel Feininger . He studied at the Bauhaus in Weimar ( 1922–5 ) and received a degree in architecture from the Bauschule in Zerbst ( 1929 ). Rejecting the abstract nature of Bauhaus photography, he developed a realist style, preferring black-and-white to color. His work typically examines both the structural forms of nature, emphasizing the relationship between function and form, and the city, which he treats in a similar way, as a...
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The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists (2 ed.)
..., Andreas ( 1906–99 ). Photographer Born in Paris, a son of Lyonel Feininger , he grew up in Germany. Following studies at the Bauhaus from 1922 to 1925 , he earned an architectural degree in 1928 from the Bauschule in Zerbst. After moving in 1933 to Stockholm, he became a full-time photographer in 1936 and emigrated to the United States in 1939 . Evidencing an architect’s sensitivity to space and structure, his analytic, visually nuanced photographs often pinpoint unexpected eloquence in the material world. He traveled widely as a...
