Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
(Houses in the Woods), 1917
Pencil on graph paper
6 1/2 x 8 1/8 in. (16.5 x 20.6 cm)
Dated lower left: 18 VII 17
Lyonel Feininger at the height of his Cubistic phase.
Lyonel Feininger at the height of his Cubistic phase.
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
(Houses in the Woods), 1917
Pencil on graph paper
6 1/2 x 8 1/8 in. (16.5 x 20.6 cm)
Dated lower left: 18 VII 17
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
(Houses in the Woods), 1917
Pencil on graph paper
6 1/2 x 8 1/8 in. (16.5 x 20.6 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: 24 VII 17
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
(Landscape with Houses), 1917
Pencil on graph paper
6 1/2 x 8 1/8 in. (16.5 x 20.6 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: Feininger 24 VII 17
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
(Braunlage with Church St. Trinitas), 1917
Pencil on paper
3 7/8 x 6 1/4 in. (9.8 x 15.9 cm)
Dated upper right: 28 VII 17
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
(Landscape with Bridge, 1917
Pencil on graph paper
8 1/8 x 6 1/2 in. (20.6 x 16.5 cm)
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
(Village Street), 1917
Pencil on paper
3 7/8 x 6 1/4 in. (9.8 x 15.9 cm)
Dated lower left: 28 VII 17
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
(Church in Braunlage), 1917
Pencil on paper
6 1/4 x 8 in. (15.9 x 20.3 cm)
Signed lower right: Feininger
Dated lower right: 13 Juli 1917
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
(Fir Trees), 1917
Pencil on paper
6 3/4 x 3 7/8 in. (17.1 x 9.8 cm)
Dated upper left: 20 VII 17
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
(House in the Mountains), 1917
Pencil on paper
3 7/8 x 6 1/8 in. (9.8 x 15.6 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: Feininger 12 VII 17
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
(Mountains with Houses), 1917
Pencil on graph paper
8 1/8 x 6 1/2 in. (20.6 x 16.5 cm)
Dated lower left: 16 VII 17
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
(Village Houses), 1917
Pencil on paper
6 1/4 x 8 1/8 in. (15.9 x 20.6 cm)
Dated lower left: 11 Juli 17
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
(House in the Woods), 1917
Pencil on paper
8 x 6 1/4 in. (20.3 x 15.9 cm)
Signed lower right: Feininger
Dated lower left: 24. VII. 17
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
(Trees), 1917
Pencil on graph paper
8 1/8 x 6 1/2 in. (20.6 x 16.5 cm)
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
(Fir Trees and Rock), 1917
Charcoal on graph paper
8 1/8 x 6 1/2 in. (20.6 x 16.5 cm)
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
(Fir Trees), 1917
Pencil on paper
6 3/4 x 3 7/8 in. (17.1 x 9.8 cm)
Dated lower left: 20 VII 17
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
(Landscape), 1917
Pencil on paper
6 1/4 x 8 1/8 in. (15.9 x 20.6 cm)
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
(Fir Trees), 1917
Pencil on paper
6 3/4 x 3 7/8 in. (17.1 x 9.8 cm)
Dated upper right: 18. VII. 17
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
(Landscape), 1917
Pencil on paper
3 7/8 x 6 1/4 in. (9.8 x 15.9 cm)
Dated lower right: 16. VII. 17
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
Königskrug, 1917
Pencil on graph paper
6 1/4 x 8 1/8 in. (15.9 x 20.6 cm)
Titeld and dated upper roght: Königskrug Sonnt d. 7 VII 17
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
(Houses), 1917
Pencil on paper
3 7/8 x 6 1/4 in. (9.8 x 15.9 cm)
Dated lower left: Sonnt. d. 22. Juli, 1917
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
(House), 1917
Pencil on graph paper
6 1/2 x 8 1/8 in. (16.5 x 20.6 cm)
Dated lower left: Sonnab. 7 VII 17
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
(Stack of Woods), 1917
Pencil on paper
6 1/4 x 8 1/8 in. (15.9 x 20.6 cm)
Dated upper left: 7. VII. 17
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
(Study of the Woods), 1917
Pencil on graph paper
12 x 6 1/2 in. (30.5 x 16.5 cm)
Dated lower left: 6. VII. 17
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
(Landscape), 1917
Pencil on paper
6 1/4 x 8 1/8 in. (15.9 x 20.6 cm)
Dated upper right: 4. VII. 17
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
Braunlage, 1917
Pencil on paper
8 1/8 x 6 1/4 in. (20.6 x 15.9 cm)
Dated and titled upper left: Mittw. 4. VII. 17 Braunlage
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
(Mountains), 1917
Pencil on paper
8 1/8 x 6 1/2 in. (20.6 x 16.5 cm
Dated lower right: 12 VII 17
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
(Trees), 1917
Pencil on paper
8 1/8 x 6 1/4 in. (20.6 x 15.9 cm)
Dated lower left: Fri 13 VII 17
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
(Clouds), 1917
Pencil on paper
6 1/4 x 8 1/8 in. (15.9 x 20.6 cm)
Dated upper right: Sonnt. d. 15. VII. 17
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
(Clouds), 1917
Pencil on paper
6 1/4 x 8 1/8 in. (15.9 x 20.6 cm)
Dated lower left: 17 7 17
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
(Horizon), 1917
Pencil on graph paper
6 1/2 x 8 1/8 in. (16.5 x 20.6 cm)
Dated lower left: 17 7 17
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Loynel Feininger and his three sons in Braunlage, 1918
1871
Lyonel Feininger is born on July 17 in New York to Karl and Elizabeth Feininger; he is the first of three children.
1887
Leaves for Germany and starts studying at the General Vocational and Crafts School in Hamburg.
1888
Moves to Berlin and begins studying at the Royal Academy of Arts.
1892
Leaves the Academy and moves to Paris.
1893
Moves back to Berlin and starts working as a freelance cartoonist and illustrator.
1901
Marries Clara Fürst, birth of daughter Eleonora.
1902
Birth of daughter Marianne.
1905
Meets Julia Berg (née Lilienfeld) and separates from his wife.
1906
Moves with Julia to Paris and their son Andreas is born. Works on two comic strips for The Chicago Sunday Tribune.
1907
Executes his first oil painting.
1908
Marries Julia in London, returns to Berlin.
1909
Birth of son Laurence.
1910
Birth of son Theodore Lux (T. Lux).
1911
Six paintings are shown at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris.
1913
Five paintings are shown at the Erster Deutscher Herbstsalon, organized by the Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin.
1917
First solo exhibition at the Galerie Der Sturm.
1919
Is appointed the first master of the Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar.
1921
Composes his first fugue.
1926
Moves with the Bauhaus to Dessau as master without teaching duties.
1929
Works on a series of paintings for the City of Halle (Saale).
1931
Completes his Halle series. Retrospectives in Dresden, Essen, and at the Nationalgalerie in Berlin.
1934
Moves to Berlin-Siemensstadt.
1935
The National Socialists declare his art “degenerate.”
1936
Teaches a summer course at Mills College in Oakland, California.
1937
Leaves Germany, teaches another summer course at Mills College and then settles in New York City.
1939
Works on murals for the 1939/1940 New York World’s Fair.
1942
One of his paintings is awarded a purchase prize by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
1944
Retrospective with Marsden Hartley at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.
1945
Teaches a summer course at Black Mountain College in Asheville, North Carolina.
1956
Dies on January 13 in his New York apartment.