Lyonel Feininger
1871-1956
American Cubist Painter, member of the Blaue Reiter group
Artistically and stylistically influenced by the following painters and art movements; Fauvism, Cubism, Francisco Goya, Franz Marc, James Ensor, Paul Cézanne Klee, Kandinsky, and Jawlensky
Feininger was one of the original artists who taught at the Bauhaus, until the Nazis declared that he along with all his artist friends were “degenerate artists” and slammed the doors shut in 1933.
Cause of Death - Old Age
Lyonel Feininger
Quotation
"Each individual work
serves s an expression
of our most personal
state of mind at that
particular moment and of
the inescapable,
imperative need for
release by means of an
appropriate act of
creation: the rhythm,
form, colour and mood of
a picture" -- Lyonel
Feininger Quote
Principle Painters of the Expressionist Movement
Otto Dix
James Ensor
Lyonel Feininger
George Grosz
Alexej Von
Jawlensky
Wassily
Kandinsky
Ernst Ludwig
Kirchner
Paul Klee
Oskar Kokoschka
Auguste Macke
Franz Marc
Amedeo
Modigliani
Edvard Munch
Emil Nolde
Georges Rouault
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