Lyonel Feininger Paintings Prints Posters

Sailing Boats Art Print

Vogel Wolke Art Print

Spiller Tag am Meer Ill Art Print

Marine Blue Art Print

Barfusserkirche Art Print

Gelmeroda XII Art Print

Night Landscape Art Print

The Gruetz-Tower in Treptow at Rega Art Print

Upper Weimar Art Print

Once in a Blue Moon Art Print

Nermsdorf Art Print

The Green Bridge II Art Print

Beleuchtete Hauser Art Print

He had as also been a member of the 1909 Berliner Session, was affiliated with expressionist art circle Die Brucke, the November Gruppe, the Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) circle which held only two exhibitions and was founded by Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, and Gabriele Munter, and The Blue Four whose members were Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Alexei Jawlensky. Feininger created the famous cover art which was used on the Bauhaus 1919 manifesto. The cover had consisted of an expressionist woodcut cathedral. He as well was an instructor with the Bauhaus for many years.

Lyonel Feininger was born in 1871, the son of German concert violinist. His mother was a singer as well as pianist. He and his family moved to Europe during 1887, and it was here that Lyonel received his first lessons in drawing and painting class with the Gewerbeschule in Hamburg. The artist went on to enroll in the Konigliche Kunst-Akademie of Berlin where he remained and took classes between 1888 until 1892. After his education, Feininger spent a year living in Paris where he went to a private art school, the Academie Colarossi, founded band run by Italian sculptor Filippo Colarossi. In 1893 Feininger went back to Berlin, where he supported himself primarily as an illustrator for magazines and newspapers up to the year 1906. He passed the two years following living in Paris where he encountered the Cafe du Dome group of German students of Henri Matisse in addition to French cubist painter Robert Delaunay.

Lyonel Feininger would become a member of the Berliner Sezession in 1909, and a year after presented his first paintings to their exhibits. He took a trip to Paris, France during 1911 for the exhibition with the Salon des Independents. In Paris, Feininger would encounter the Cubist art movement for the first time. His familiarity with Austrian expressionist painter and illustrator Alfred Kubin along with the Bruck' artists Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Erich Heckel unfolded up new views to apply to his own art. He started creating his initial architectural pieces in the characteristic Cubist style, applying fragmentation. During 1913 German abstract expressionists artist Franz Mark asked Feininger to take part in the Erster Deutscher Herbstsalon which was to be held at Sturm gallery owned by Herwarth Walden, located in Berlin. The gallery would likewise arrange for Feininger's first one-man show during 1917.

He worked in Weimar where he was a graphic art and painting instructor up to 1926. Feininger co-founded the artist circle known as the Blue Four or Die Blauen Vier with Wassily Kandinsky as the leader, Paul Klee and Alexej von Jawlensky in 1924. A first extensive retrospective exhibit of the group's art and painting happened in 1931 with the Kronprinzen Palais of Berlin, Germany. Feininger had relocated in to Berlin at this point in 1933. Once the National Socialist German Workers Party NSDAP gained power over 1933, life grew intolerable for Feininger and his wife, who had been part Jewish. Feininger then moved once more, this time to New York during 1937. That year the National Socialists impounded over four hundred of his art works. His major creative discovery in the United States just began during 1944 in a retrospective show held in New York City's Museum of Modern Art. 1945 found the artist holding a summer class with North Carolina's Black Mountain College, here he met architect Walter Gropius and Albert Einstein. Feininger's time as a teacher, writings along with mature watercolors have been a significant root of the growth of Abstract Expressionism in the United States and an inspiration to painters since.

Feininger's first wife was Clara Furst, daughter of the artist Gustav Fürst. The couple had two daughters. He as well had children with a woman by the name of Julia Berg. Later he and Julia were married.