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Lyonel Feininger Biographie
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1871 |
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Born Léonell Charles Feininger in New York, NY
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1888 |
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Attended the Königliche Akademie where he studied under painter Ernst Hancke, Berlin, Germany
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1889 |
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Worked as a caricaturist for the weekly magazine Humoristische Blätter, Berlin, Germany
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1890 |
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Attended the Jesuit-run College St. Servais in Liège, Belgium
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1891 |
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Returned to Berlin and enrolled at the art school of Karl Schlabitz, Berlin, Germany
Returned to the Königliche Akademie, Berlin, Germany
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1892 |
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Moved to Paris where he spends the next six months and visited the art school of the Italian sculptor Filippo Colarossi, Paris, France
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1942 |
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Recipient, acquisition prize for Gelmeroda XIII at the Artists for Victory Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, NY
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1945 |
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Instructor Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, NC
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1947 |
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Elected president of the Federation of American Painters and Sculptors
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1955 |
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Elected member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters
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1956 |
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Died in New York, NY
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| Expositions sélectionnées |
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2012
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Lyonel Feininger: Photographs 1928–1939, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
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2011
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Feininger at Harvard: Drawings, Watercolors, and Photographs, Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Germany and Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
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2011
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Sommergäste. Von Arp bis Werefkin - Die Klassische Moderne in Mecklenburg und Pommern, Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Germany
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2010
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Feininger in the Harz, Moeller Fine Art, Berlin, Germany (solo)
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2009
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Your Uncle Feininger: Comics, Fairy Tales, and Toys, Moeller Fine Art, Berlin, Germany (solo)
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2007
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Lyonel Feininger: Unique and Rare Prints from Quedlinburg, Moeller Fine Art, New York, NY (solo)
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2004
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Lyonel Feininger & Mark Tobey: Years of Friendship 1944 - 1956, Moeller Fine Art, New York, NY
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1949
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
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1944
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Lyonel Feininger and Marsden Hartley, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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1942
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Artists for Victory, Metropolitan Museum, New York, NY
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1929
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Nineteen Living American Artists, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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1920
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Anger-Museum, Erfurt, Germany
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1904
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The Great Berlin Art Exhibition, Berlin, Germany
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| Selected Public Collections |
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Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
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Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
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Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
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Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
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| Littérature |
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2007
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Mossinger, Ingrid. Lyonel Feininger: The Loebermann Collection Drawings/ Watercolors/ Prints. New York: Prestel Publishing, 2007
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1991
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Hess, Hans. Lyonel Feininger. Stuttgart, Germany: Kohlhammer, 1991
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