Lyonel Feininger

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.

Works in Collection

224 works

.a Da-Da, 1 (frontispiece) for the illustrated book Dada ...

Lyonel Feininger

1918

.a) Five Figures .b) Four Figures

Lyonel Feininger

1906

Anglers (Angler)

Lyonel Feininger

(1919)

Anglers (Angler) from Ten Woodcuts by Lyonel Feininger

Lyonel Feininger

(1919, published 1941)

Anglers and Ships (Angler und Schiffe) from Ten Woodcuts ...

Lyonel Feininger

(1919, published 1941)

Arcueil II

Lyonel Feininger

1915

At the Seaside (An der Waterkant)

Lyonel Feininger

(1912, probably printed in the 1950s)

Aunty Jimjam and Cousin Gussy Have a Vision of the Kin-de...

Lyonel Feininger

June 17, 1906

Baltic Steamer (Ostsee Dampfer)

Lyonel Feininger

1918

Bauhaus

Lyonel Feininger

February 26, 1929

Bauhaus Ausstellung Juli - Oktober 1923

Lyonel Feininger

1923

Bauhaus Ausstellung Weimar Juli - Oktober 1923

Lyonel Feininger

1923

Blind Musician on the Beach (Blinder Musikant am Strande)

Lyonel Feininger

1933

Cathedral (Kathedrale) [small trial block]

Lyonel Feininger

1919

Cathedral (Kathedrale) for Program of the State Bauhaus i...

Lyonel Feininger

1919

Church (Kirche)

Lyonel Feininger

1918

Church (Kirche)

Lyonel Feininger

1919

Church (Kirche)

Lyonel Feininger

1923

Church in the Woods, 2 (Waldkirche, 2)

Lyonel Feininger

1920

Church on the Cliff I (Kirche auf der Klippe I)

Lyonel Feininger

1953

City on the Mountain (Stadt auf dem Berge)

Lyonel Feininger

1918

Cliffs and Sea

Lyonel Feininger

1928

Cliffs and Sea

Lyonel Feininger

1928

Cliffs and Sea with Ruins

Lyonel Feininger

1928

Exhibitions

64 exhibitions

Dec 12, 1929 – Jan 12, 1930

Paintings by 19 Living Americans

19 artists

Jul 11, 1934 – Sep 13, 1934

New Acquisitions: Lachaise Torso; Prints

21 artists

Mar 02, 1936 – Apr 19, 1936

Cubism and Abstract Art

113 artists · 1 curator

May 24, 1938 – Jul 31, 1938

Three Centuries of American Art

247 artists · 7 curators

Dec 07, 1938 – Jan 30, 1939

Bauhaus: 1919–1928

66 artists

May 10, 1939 – Sep 30, 1939

Painting, Sculpture, Prints

154 artists

Jul 15, 1941 – Jul 28, 1941

Abstract Painting; Shapes of Things

12 artists

Sep 16, 1941 – Oct 14, 1941

Twenty Lithographs: Graphic Art Processes

36 artists

Aug 26, 1942 – Sep 27, 1942

New Acquisitions: American Painting and Sculpture

23 artists

Nov 17, 1943 – Feb 06, 1944

Romantic Painting in America

123 artists · 1 curator

Jan 19, 1944 – Mar 26, 1944

New Acquisitions: 12 American Paintings

12 artists

Feb 16, 1944 – May 10, 1944

Modern Drawings

120 artists · 3 curators

May 24, 1944 – Oct 15, 1944

Painting, Sculpture, Prints

133 artists · 1 curator

Oct 24, 1944 – Jan 14, 1945

Lyonel Feininger

1 artist · 1 curator

Feb 15, 1945 – Mar 18, 1945

Recent Acquisitions

38 artists

Jun 20, 1945 – Feb 13, 1946

The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture

174 artists

Oct 15, 1946 – Nov 24, 1946

On Being a Cartoonist

31 artists · 1 curator

Dec 23, 1948 – Mar 13, 1949

American Paintings from the Museum Collection

115 artists · 1 curator

May 10, 1949 – Jul 10, 1949

Master Prints from the Museum Collection

132 artists · 2 curators

Aug 03, 1949 – Oct 02, 1949

Painting and Sculpture in Architecture

51 artists

Jan 23, 1951 – Mar 25, 1951

Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America

79 artists · 1 curator

Aug 12, 1952 – Sep 21, 1952

Works from the Museum Collection

29 artists · 1 curator

Sep 08, 1954 – Nov 28, 1954

American Prints of the 20th Century

111 artists · 1 curator

Oct 19, 1954 – Feb 06, 1955

XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection

260 artists

May 31, 1955 – Sep 07, 1955

Paintings from Private Collections

33 artists · 1 curator

Oct 05, 1955 – Oct 24, 1955

Selections from the Art Lending Service

42 artists · 1 curator

Oct 02, 1957 – Dec 01, 1957

German Art of the 20th Century

42 artists · 2 curators

Apr 23, 1958 – May 18, 1958

50 Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bareiss

41 artists · 1 curator

Apr 02, 1959 – May 31, 1959

American Acquisitions: Recent Additions of Prints to the Museum Collection

36 artists · 1 curator

Jan 27, 1960 – Mar 20, 1960

Art Lending Service Retrospective

54 artists · 1 curator

Oct 11, 1960 – Jan 02, 1961

100 Drawings from the Museum Collection

74 artists · 1 curator

Jan 16, 1963 – Mar 10, 1963

The Intimate World of Lyonel Feininger

1 artist · 1 curator

Aug 06, 1963 – Sep 29, 1963

60 Modern Drawings: Recent Acquisitions

45 artists · 1 curator

May 27, 1964

Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection

169 artists

May 27, 1964 – Mar 23, 1965

Drawings from the Museum Collections: A Selection

57 artists · 1 curator

Sep 06, 1965 – Jan 23, 1966

44 Drawings: Recent Acquisitions

33 artists · 1 curator

Oct 31, 1966 – May 08, 1967

Drawings from the Museum Collection

53 artists

Jun 26, 1967 – Nov 22, 1967

Drawings: Recent Acquisitions

45 artists

Aug 01, 1967 – Sep 24, 1967

Lyonel Feininger: The Ruin by the Sea

1 artist · 2 curators

Mar 22, 1968 – Jul 01, 1968

Manhattan Observed

37 artists · 2 curators

Nov 27, 1968 – Feb 09, 1969

The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age

11 artists · 2 curators

May 28, 1969 – Sep 01, 1969

Twentieth-Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection

119 artists · 1 curator

Dec 24, 1969 – Mar 01, 1970

American Drawings and Watercolors: A Selection from the Collection

40 artists · 1 curator

Jul 06, 1971 – Sep 15, 1971

Summer Show

52 artists · 1 curator

Jun 26, 1972 – Sep 15, 1972

Prints for Collectors

36 artists · 1 curator

Jun 27, 1972 – Oct 10, 1972

European Drawings from the Collection

24 artists · 1 curator

Oct 12, 1973 – Feb 02, 1974

Published in Germany, 1923

17 artists · 2 curators

Jun 13, 1974 – Sep 08, 1974

Seurat to Matisse: Drawing in France

79 artists · 1 curator

Aug 30, 1974 – Nov 10, 1974

German Drawing: The Expressionists

24 artists · 1 curator

Mar 07, 1975 – Jun 08, 1975

Points of View

29 artists · 1 curator

Sep 05, 1975 – Nov 11, 1975

Drawings: Recent Gifts

15 artists · 1 curator

Feb 09, 1976 – May 09, 1976

Cubism and Its Affinities

45 artists · 1 curator

May 14, 1976 – Aug 08, 1976

Prints from the Collection

30 artists

Aug 20, 1976 – Nov 14, 1976

Between World Wars: Drawing in Europe and America

66 artists · 1 curator

Apr 28, 1978 – Jul 04, 1978

A Treasury of Modern Drawing: The Joan and Lester Avnet Collection

89 artists · 1 curator

Jun 04, 1979 – Jul 30, 1979

Views over America

35 artists · 1 curator

Nov 14, 1979 – Jan 22, 1980

Art of the Twenties

167 artists · 1 curator

Mar 03, 1983 – May 15, 1983

Prints from Blocks: Gauguin to Now

128 artists · 1 curator

Oct 26, 1983 – Jan 03, 1984

The Modern Drawing: 100 Works on Paper from The Museum of Modern Art

81 artists · 1 curator

May 17, 1984

Selections from the Permanent Collection: Prints and Illustrated Books

99 artists · 2 curators

May 06, 1985 – Dec 18, 1985

The Expressionist Idiom

43 artists · 1 curator

May 26, 1985 – Oct 29, 1985

Drawing in Austria and Germany

41 artists · 1 curator

Aug 18, 1989 – Nov 07, 1989

The Cubist Imprint

30 artists · 1 curator

Nov 16, 1989 – Mar 13, 1990

Prints: Proofs and Variants

25 artists · 1 curator