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ID: 500115308 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500115308			Record Type: Person

Feininger, Lyonel (German painter, illustrator, and teacher, 1871-1956, active in Germany and America)

Note: Feininger's highly personal style was influenced by Delaunay and Cubism. He moved to Germany in 1887 and enrolled in art classes at the Allgemeinen Gewerbeschule in Hamburg, after which he left for Berlin in 1888 and studied painting at the Royal Academy (Berlin, Germany) from 1888 to 1892. In 1892 and 1906 he attended the art school in Paris run by Filippo Colarossi. From either 1893 to ca. 1907 or 1895 to 1914, Feininger produced illustrations for the journals Ulk, The Chicago Tribune and Le Témoin. He returned to painting in 1907 and was a member of the Berlin Secession from 1909 to 1913 and exhibited with the Blaue Reiter in 1913. He was appointed a Master at the Bauhaus, Weimar, in 1919 and directed the graphic workshop. In 1925 or 1926, Feininger moved to the Bauhaus, Dessau, and continued as a Master until ca. 1932 or 1933 but no longer taught classes. He was the only person to be on staff at the Bauhaus from start to finish. In 1936, Feininger left for New York and a year later, in Germany, his work was declared degenerate by the Nazis. He conducted a course at Mills College (Oakland, California) in either 1936 or from 1936 to 1937. From 1938 to 1939, he designed murals for the Marine Transportation Building and Masterpieces of Art Building at the 1939 New York World's Fair. He was elected president of the Federation of American Painters and Sculptors in 1947 and continued painting until his death in 1956. American painter. Comment on works: Landscapes

Names:
	Feininger, Lyonel (preferred,V,index,LC,English-P,NA,U)
	Feininger, Lyonel (Dutch-P,NA)
	Lyonel Feininger (V,display)
	Feininger, Léonell Charles (V)
	Feininger, Lyonel Charles Adrian (V)
	Feininger, Charles Léonell (U)
	פיינינגר, ליונל (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)
	Feininger (LU,U)
	feininger, l. (LU,U)
	lionel feininger (LU,U)

Nationalities:
	American (preferred)
	German
	Austrian

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	painter
	illustrator
	muralist
	teacher
	cartoonist
	woodcutter
	landscapist
	sculptor
	graphic artist
	woodcarver
	caricaturist
	draftsman

Gender: male


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place) Died: New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)

Events:

	active:		1887-1888 Hamburg (Hamburg state, Germany) (inhabited place)
	active:		1888-1892 Berlin (Berlin state, Germany) (inhabited place)
	active:		1892-1906 Paris (Île-de-France, France) (inhabited place)
	active:		1919-1925 Weimar (Hessen state, Germany) (inhabited place)
	active:		1925-1933 Dessau (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany) (inhabited place)
	active:		from 1936 United States (North and Central America) (nation)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:

colleague of ....	Scheyer, Galka
......................	(American art dealer and collector, 1889-1945, born in Germany) [500349756]

parent of ....	Feininger, Andreas
................	(American photographer, 1906-1999) [500031430]

parent of ....	Feininger, T. Lux
................	(American painter and photographer, 1910-2011, born in Germany) [500021971]

professor at (person to institution) ....	Bauhaus
................................................................	(German art school, 1919-1933) [500125058]

student of ....	Friedrich, Waldemar
..................	(German artist, 1846-1910) [500140060]

teacher at (person to institution) ....	Black Mountain College
............................................................	(American liberal arts college, active 1933-1957) [500125890]

teacher of ....	Ardon, Mordecai
..................	(Israeli painter, 1896-1992) [500030956]

teacher of ....	Baschant, Rudolf
..................	(Austrian painter, 1897-1955) [500469994]

teacher of ....	Borchert, Erich
..................	(German painter, 1907-1944) [500573647]

teacher of ....	Dicker, Friedl
..................	(Austrian designer, painter, and teacher, 1898-1944) [500115579]

teacher of ....	Gilles, Werner
..................	(German painter, 1894-1961) [500027299]

List/Hierarchical Position:

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Persons, Artists

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Feininger, Lyonel (I)

Biographies:

(German painter, illustrator, and teacher, 1871-1956, active in Germany and America) ..... [VP Preferred]
(artist, 1871-1956) ..... [GRL]
(American sculptor, 1871-1956) ..... [RKD]
(artist) ..... [Belvedere]
(artist, probably Austrian, 1871-1956) ..... [Belvedere]
(American painter, 1871-1956) ..... [IMJ]
(American artist) ..... [PROV]
(American artist, 1871-1956) ..... [MoMA]
(American artist, 1871-1956) ..... [PROV]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(American painter, 1871-1956) ..... [BHA]
(American painter, 1871-1956) ..... [AVERY]
(American artist, 1871-1956) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(American artist, 1871-1956) ..... [WCI]
(American artist, 1871-1956) ..... [WCP]
(American painter, 1871-1956) ..... [PROV]
(American, 1871-1956) ..... [GRLPA]
(American painter, illustrator, muralist and teacher; born New York (City) (New York, United States), 1871; died New York (City) (New York, United States), 1956) ..... [CCA]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:

פיינינגר, ליונל ........	[IMJ]
..............................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database

Feininger ........	[PROV]
.....................	Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)

Feininger, Charles Léonell ........	[GRL]
.....................................................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 50001305

feininger, l. ........	[PROV]
..........................	Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)

Feininger, Léonell Charles ........	[CCA, GRL]
.....................................................	Canadian Centre for Architecture database
.....................................................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 50001305

Feininger, Lyonel ........	[AVERY Preferred, Belvedere Preferred, BHA Preferred, CCA Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, GRLPA Preferred, IMJ Preferred, MoMA Preferred, PROV Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred, WCI Preferred, WCP Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
....................................	Archiv des Belvedere database: Künstlerdokumentation (n.d.) 18988
....................................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
....................................	Avery Authority files (1963-)
....................................	CCA Authority File (1980-)
....................................	Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
....................................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database
....................................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 50001305
....................................	M. Knoedler & Co. records, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2012-)
....................................	Oxford Concise Dictionary of Art and Artists (1996) 178
....................................	Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
....................................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 27564
....................................	Witt Library, Authority files

Feininger, Lyonel Charles Adrian ........	[CCA, GRL]
................................................................	Canadian Centre for Architecture database
................................................................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 50001305

lionel feininger ........	[PROV]
................................	Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)

Lyonel Feininger ........	[Belvedere, CCA, GRISC, MoMA, PROV, VP]
..................................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..................................	Canadian Centre for Architecture database
..................................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules
..................................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
..................................	Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)


Note:
English	..........	[AVERY, CCA, PROV, VP, WL-Courtauld]
	..........	Bénézit, Dictionnaire des Peintres (1976)
	..........	CCA Authority File (1980-)
	..........	LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
	..........	Luckhardt, Lyonel Feininger (1989)
	..........	Ness, Lyonel Feininger (1974)
	..........	Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)

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