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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...
Permanent Drift. Born in Manhattan, Feininger started out to be a musician. His father was a violinist, his mother a pianist and Lyonel eventually became both. He was a shy and lonely boy who practiced four or five hours a day, then listened for hours more to his parents' performances. When he was 16, his father decided that he should continue his studies in Leipzig. But the professor his father wanted him to have was away. While waiting in Hamburg for his return, Lyonel drifted into studying...
...drift soon became permanent. Lyonel became a caricaturist, and though still living in Europe, he began drawing comic strips for the Chicago Tribune. He soon learned to hate deadlines, found that what he really wanted was to paint ("My contentment is founded on creative work"). He joined the Bauhaus group, and with Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky (TIME, March 24) became a top apostle of abstract art. "I have to destroy nature," he cried, "before I can build her up again." The architect he took as his model: Johann Sebastian Bach...
...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...