Word: lyonel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ALTHOUGH he spent most of his life in Germany, Lyonel Feininger framed and shaped his art in America. The son of a German concert violinist, Feininger was born and brought up in Manhattan. Among his earliest memories was that of seeing stripe-suited prisoners marching in lock step on Blackwells (now Welfare Island. "This made a wretched impression on me." he recalled. "I took to drawing ghosts for a while, and this may have laid the foundation for my fantastic figures and caricatures." When he was 16, Feininger went to Europe to study music. Soon he switched...
...Free man, you shall always love the sea," wrote Baudelaire. And it was the sea which animated the hand of Lyonel Feininger so long and so well; not the indomitable, raging waters of Baudelaire as much as the deep, impenetrable immensity of Melville's ocean world. More significantly, it was always Feininger's own sea, personal, highly lyrical, and richly controlled...
...pourri of most everything. Feininger invariably survived the tempest as one of the few who indeed justified it. Those interested parties among us who eagerly engage the democratic process in support of the muse usually wind up attempting to lift a few aristocrats from the debris. Lyonel Feininger was always one of the aristocrats...
...derogatory aspect. A painter can usually, or should ideally, be able to project his knowledge and instinct beyond his taste, the last mentioned being surface matter in the business of criticism. It was this gentleman's taste which created the paradox. What the incident evokes is the fact that Lyonel Feininger's work is that of a painter's painter. He always commanded the respect of his fellow artists. That is no easy thing to achieve and there are few accolades better worth having...
...emblematic pictorial symbols that crowded his canvases to the bursting point, but recovered much of Germany's lost humanism. The most intense group of artists was at the Bauhaus, where the new center of architecture, with its goal of "art and technology -a new synthesis," attracted U.S. Painter Lyonel Feininger, Josef Albers, Oskar Schlemmer and Klee. There Kandinsky combined abstract geometric forms with color in Composition VIII to arrive at a new and colder art that he hoped would have the quality of "burning power in an icy chalice." The closing of the Bauhaus in May 1933 signaled...