When did Lyonel Feininger live?

Lyonel Feininger lived from 1871 to 1956.

What movement was Lyonel Feininger part of?

Lyonel Feininger was part of the Bauhaus and Expressionism movements.

How many Lyonel Feininger paintings are in the archive?

There are 36 paintings by Lyonel Feininger in the Artifact World Gallery archive.

Where can I see paintings by Lyonel Feininger?

Paintings by Lyonel Feininger are held by Museum of Modern Art.

Lyonel Feininger · 36 Paintings, Biography & Famous Works

American, 1871–1956

Lyonel Feininger was an American Bauhaus artist. 36 works are cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art. Lyonel Feininger was born in New York City.

Lyonel Charles Adrian Feininger was a German-American painter, and a leading exponent of Expressionism. He also worked as a caricaturist and comic strip artist. He was born and grew up in New York City.

In 1887 he traveled to Europe and studied art in Hamburg, Berlin and Paris. He started his career as a cartoonist in 1894 and met with much success in this area. He also worked as a commercial caricaturist for 20 years.

At the age of 36, he began to work as a fine artist. His work, characterized above all by prismatically broken, overlapping forms in translucent colors, with many references to architecture and the sea, made him one of the most important artists of classical modernism. Furthermore he produced a large body of photographic works and created several piano compositions and fugues for organ.