Discover sculptor, graphic artist, woodcarver Lyonel Feininger

Qualifications: sculptor, graphic artist, woodcarver, caricaturist, painter, draftsperson, wall painter

Nationality/school: American

Born: New York City 1871-07-17

Deceased: New York City 1956-01-13

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: father of photographer Andreas and artist Theodor Lux Feininger

See also In this field, you will find references to names of groups or to the artists that made/make up groups. You may also come across references to other artists if there was/is question of collaboration without a joint name. This is the case, for instance, with artists who rendered parts of works by other artists (such as with P.P Rubens and J. Brueghel I).

Jawlensky, Alexej von

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4 hits in RKDimages as artist
58 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
1 hit in RKDlibrary as author
5 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist

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Biographical information

Period of activity: 1893 - 1949
ca. 1893-1949

Education: Kunstgewerbeschule (Hamburg)

ca. 1887
Akademie der Künste (Berlijn 1918-1926)

ca. 1889 and ca. 1892 with Ernst Hancke and Woldemar Friedrich
Luik: opleiding

1890-1891 at the Jesuit college Saint-Servais
Berlijn: opleiding

1891 at the private art school of Adolf Schlabitz
Académie Colarossi (Parijs)

1892-1893

Active in

Hamburg 1887
Berlijn 1893
Parijs 1906 - 1908
Weimar (Thüringen) 1919 - 1924
Dessau (Saksen-Anhalt) 1925 - 1933
Berlijn 1933 - 1935
Oakland (California) 1935 - 1936
ca. 1935-1936
Duitsland 1936
ca. 1936
New York City 1936 - 1937
Verenigde Staten van Amerika 1937 - 1956

Teacher at academy/university: Bauhaus Schule (Weimar)
1919-1924
Bauhaus Schule (Dessau)
1925-1933
Mills College (Oakland, California)
1935

born in

active in

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Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Friedrich, Woldemar
ca. 1892 actief in het atelier van de Italiaanse beeldhouwer Filippo Colarossi
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Ardon, Mordechai
Baschant, Rudolf
Borchert, Erich
Gilles, Werner
Influenced by In contrast with ‘follower of’, we speak of ‘influenced by’ when an artist was influenced outside the context of an educational setting or servile following. An artist can be influenced by several artists at once, or in succession. In addition, there may be question of a transition to a personal style which may demonstrate development.: Delaunay, Robert (1885-1941)
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Eliasberg, Paul
Kontny, Paul August
Chassard, Marcel

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: landscape (genre)

Medium/technique: wood
Product: toy
Feininger also produced many toys from wood, first for the German manufacturer Otto Lowenstein (about 1911) and later independently

Art movement Here we mention the art movement to which an artist belonged. Many art movements have not yet been entered, because the content of this field is still under development.: Bauhaus, Der Blaue Reiter, Expressionism, Futurism, cubism

Member of

Novembergruppe
1918

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 58 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
1 hit in RKDlibrary as author

Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 11 (1915), p. 359
Cummings 1966 , p. 113-114
Bénézit 1976 , vol. 4, p. 307
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 95
Baigell 1979 , p. 121
Falk 1985 , p. 198
Saur 1992- , vol. 37 (2003), p. 550

P. Krieger, 'Lyonel Feiningers Variationen über das Gelmeroda-Motiv', Zeitschrift des Deutschen Vereins für Kunstwissenschaft 21 (1967), p. 89-102
P. Hulten [e.a.], cat.tent. Futurismo & Futurismi, Venetië (Palazzo Grassi), 1986, p. 476
Vlg. Hamburg (Hauswedell & Nolte) 05-12-1998, nr. 662-674 (grafiek)
K. Plaschy, ' "Klarster Kristalliker" - Lyonel Feiningers Bilder als Ausdruck mystischen Weltgefühls', in: Georges-Bloch-Jahrbuch des Kunsthistorischen Instituts der Universität Zürich, Bd. 9/10, 2002/03, p. 282-288
M. Risch-Stolz, 'Neue Perspektiven', in: Weltkunst, Jrg.74, H. 10/2004, p. 37
U. Fölsing, 'Die Kirche im Dorf', in: Weltkunst, Jrg. 74, H. 10/2004, p. 61-63
Gaade's Kunstwijzer 1985 (NFM)
Co Je Fotografie, Prague, 1989, p. 334 (NFM)
Fiedler, J. (ed.): Photography at the Bauhaus (1990) (NFM)
GEH database (NFM)
Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 53 (2011), themanummer over Lyonel Feininger

Documentation RKD

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Archive location: Archief en bibliotheek Theo en Nelly van Doesburg

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