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Lyonel Charles Adrian Feininger (July 17, 1871 – January 13, 1956) was a German-American painter, and a leading exponent of Expressionism. [1] 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.
Learn about Lyonel Feininger, a German-American artist who worked as a caricaturist and comic strip creator. Explore his 68 artworks, including oil paintings, drawings and photographs, at Wikiart.org.
- American, German
- July 17, 1871
- New York City, New York, United States
- January 13, 1956
Learn about Lyonel Feininger, a German-American painter, printmaker, cartoonist, and photographer who was a leader of Cubo-Expressionism and a founding member of the Bauhaus school. Explore his paintings, drawings, and woodcuts that combine abstraction, expression, and utopian vision.
- German-American
- July 17, 1871
- New York City, NY
- January 13, 1956
Learn about Lyonel Feininger, a German-born American artist who created The Kin-der-Kids comic strip and joined the Bauhaus movement. Explore his works, exhibitions, publications, and biography at MoMA.
Lyonel Feininger (born July 17, 1871, New York, New York, U.S.—died January 13, 1956, New York City) was an American artist whose paintings and teaching activities at the Bauhaus brought a new compositional discipline and lyrical use of colour into the predominantly Expressionistic art of Germany.
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Lyonel Feininger. American painter, printmaker, draftsman, photographer, who lived in Germany from 1887 until 1937. Became commercially successful cartoonist and illustrator for American and German magazines and newspapers in the 1890s, but after 1908 dedicated himself to painting and fine art.
Learn about Lyonel Feininger, a cubist painter who influenced by futurism and taught at the Bauhaus. Explore his works of art and related content from the National Gallery of Art.
