Word: lyonel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he is asked what artist has influenced him most, Painter Lyonel Feininger answers: "Bach." Visitors to his retrospective show in Manhattan last week could see what he means. Disciplined as fugues, Feininger's paintings of ships and steeples, trees and towers are masterpieces of order-"organized and orchestrated in color," Feininger hopes, "like a large-scale composition for the organ." Over the years, his compositions have won Lyonel Feininger recognition as one of the most distinguished of living U.S. artists, and last week, at 80, he was still composing as strongly as ever...
...mass production. Josef Albers turned broken bottles into stained-glass windows, and his wife Anni developed new techniques and textures for fabric weaving. Bayer and Moholy-Nagy experimented with typography and abstract photography, Oskar Schlemmer and Xanti Schawinsky produced abstract stage sets. Painters Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Lyonel Feininger stuck mainly to painting...
...Lyonel Feininger's section includes fine, sketchy prints and cubist canvasses. Although his oils are certainly interesting, none of them is particularly vivid or eye-catching...
...Lyonel Feininger did this signed woodcut in 1920. It is one of a wide selection of original prints by well known artists to be found in the Print known artists to be found in the Print Room of CHILD'S ART GALLERY at 169 Newbury Street in Boston. The price range on good, original prints starts at $2.50. Many are as high as $25.00, but most of the selections go for less, as does this woodcut...
Time marches on. Last week Manhattanites were looking over a review of 40 years of abstract art with utter calm. Pictures by such oldtimers as John Marin, Lyonel Feininger and Joseph Stella-which once titillated the advance guard and horrified the public-now seemed familiar, almost conservative...