Lyonel Feininger

Lyonel Feininger was born in New York City in 1871, left the United States in 1887 to study music in Germany, and eventually returned in 1936. In that long interval away he gave up the study of music for art, studied painting in Berlin and Paris, and made his living as a cartoonist and illustrator. In Paris in 1911, he made the acquaintance of the Cubists and Robert Delaunay. In 1913 he was invited to exhibit with the Blue Rider group, which included Franz Marc, Wassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee. From 1923 to 1925 he was a member of the faculty at the Bauhaus at Dessau, Germany, and in 1931 was given an exhibition at the National Gallery in Berlin. After 1933 he was included in exhibitions of degenerate art sponsored by the National Socialists.

Lyonel Feininger Images:
The Green Bridge II