Lyonel Charles Feininger was a German-American painter, and a leading exponent of Expressionism.
31 Facts About Lyonel Feininger
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Lyonel Feininger worked as a caricaturist and comic strip artist.
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Lyonel Feininger was born and grew up in New York City, traveling to Germany at 16 to study and perfect his art.
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Lyonel Feininger started his career as a cartoonist in 1894 and met with much success in this area.
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Lyonel Feininger was a commercial caricaturist for 20 years for magazines and newspapers in the USA and Germany.
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Lyonel Feininger produced a large body of photographic works between 1928 and the mid 1950s, but he kept these primarily within his circle of friends.
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Lyonel Feininger was a pianist and composer, with several piano compositions and fugues for organ extant.
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Lyonel Feininger was born to German-American violinist and composer Karl Feininger and American singer Elizabeth Feininger.
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Lyonel Feininger was born and grew up in New York City, but traveled to Germany at the age of 16 in 1887 to study.
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Lyonel Feininger continued his studies at art schools in Berlin with Karl Schlabitz, and in Paris with sculptor Filippo Colarossi.
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Lyonel Feininger started as a caricaturist for several magazines including Harper's Round Table, Harper's Young People, Humoristische Blatter, Lustige Blatter, Das Narrenschiff, Berliner Tageblatt and Ulk.
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Lyonel Feininger married her in 1901, and they had two daughters.
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Lyonel Feininger married Berg in 1908 and the couple had three boys.
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Lyonel Feininger was working for several German, French and American magazines.
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Lyonel Feininger recruited Feininger to illustrate two comic strips "The Kin-der-Kids" and "Wee Willie Winkie's World" for the Chicago Tribune.
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Lyonel Feininger worked as a commercial caricaturist for 20 years for various newspapers and magazines in both the United States and Germany.
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Lyonel Feininger started working as a fine artist at the age of 36.
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Lyonel Feininger was a member of the Berliner Sezession in 1909, and he was associated with German expressionist groups: Die Brucke, the Novembergruppe, Gruppe 1919, the Blaue Reiter circle and Die Blaue Vier.
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When Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in Germany in 1919, Lyonel Feininger was his first faculty appointment, and became the master artist in charge of the printmaking workshop.
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From 1909 until 1918, Lyonel Feininger spent summer vacations on the island of Usedom to recover and to get new inspiration.
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Lyonel Feininger continued to create paintings and drawings of Benz for the rest of his life, even after returning to live in the United States.
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Lyonel Feininger designed the cover for the Bauhaus 1919 manifesto: an expressionist woodcut 'cathedral'.
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Lyonel Feininger taught at Mills College before returning to New York.
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Lyonel Feininger was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1955.
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Lyonel Feininger produced a large body of photographic works between 1928 - he was then already 58 years old - and the mid-1950s.
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Lyonel Feininger then lived and taught in Dessau, where his neighbor was the famous experimental photographer Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, who encouraged him.
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Lyonel Feininger kept his photographic work within his circle of friends, and it was not shared with the public in his lifetime.
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Lyonel Feininger gave some prints away to his colleagues Walter Gropius and Alfred H Barr Jr.
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Lyonel Feininger had intermittent activity as a pianist and composer, with several piano compositions and fugues for organ extant.
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At a 2007 Sotheby's auction in New York, Lyonel Feininger's oil painting "Jesuits III" sold for $23,280,000.
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At a 2017 Sotheby's auction in New York, Lyonel Feininger's oil painting Fin de seance sold for $5,637,500.