Feininger
Americannoun
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Andreas (Bernhard Lyonel) 1906–1999, U.S. photographer, born in France.
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his father Lyonel (Charles Adrian), 1871–1956, U.S. painter.
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“Klee and Feininger were rather backward-orientated,” Steffen Schleiermacher, a pianist who has researched and recorded music of the Bauhaus, said in an interview.
From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2019
A woodcut of a futurist cathedral by Lyonel Feininger graced its cover.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019
German-born art dealer Galka Scheyer helped organize exhibitions that promoted a key group of 20th century artists known as the Blue Four: Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Alexei Jawlensky and Vasily Kandinsky.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2017
During a 2003 production of George Bernard Shaw’s “The Philanderer,” actor Conrad Feininger would briefly cross behind the set, out of the audience’s view.
From Washington Post • Dec. 27, 2016
Lyonel Feininger is so well known for his prismatic paintings of land, sea and city scenes that his earlier career as a major caricaturist is all but forgotten.
From Time Magazine Archive
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