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Feininger

American  
[fahy-ning-er] / ˈfaɪ nɪŋ ər /

noun

  1. Andreas (Bernhard Lyonel) 1906–1999, U.S. photographer, born in France.

  2. his father Lyonel (Charles Adrian), 1871–1956, U.S. painter.


Feininger British  
/ ˈfaɪnɪŋə /

noun

  1. Lyonel . 1871–1956, US artist, who worked at the Bauhaus, noted for his use of superimposed translucent planes of colour

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Paul Klee, an amateur violinist, adored Mozart; Lyonel Feininger, who created the woodcut cathedral that accompanied Walter Gropius’s Bauhaus manifesto in 1919, was known to play Bach fugues, and wrote some of his own.

From New York Times Aug. 22, 2019

And Conrad Feininger makes for an exceptional Shimon Peres, who, with a late-night phone call to Arafat, brought the talks to an emotional finale.

From Washington Post May 2, 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

According to his biographer, Hans Hess, Feininger even as a child could find "mysteries in the recesses of buildings and strange figures walking on the roofs and in the streets."

From Time Magazine Archive

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