Lyonel feininger germanamerican volcano, 1918 this fall i am teaching relief printing. Moreover, the book is highly authentic because more than a third of the text consists of quotations from letters of lyonel feininger himself. Feininger is typically considered a painter of high seriousness. Lyonel feininger was a highly regarded, germanamerican expressionist who. Feininger based these woodcuts, which count among his first experiments in. Born in new york city, he was sent to germany in 1887 by his germanborn father. One of the twentieth centurys great virtuosos in woodcut, lyonel feininger 18711956 created his oeuvre in this mediumsome 320 worksin a period of just a few years, from the spring of 1918, when he was living in paris, to the winter of 1920, by which time he had begun teaching at the bauhaus. In 1929 feininger created numerous photographic sketches to prepare for a series of paintings he was commissioned to make of the city of halle, germany. Lyonel feininger, larpenteur du monde muma le havre. Business education entrepreneurship recruitment business books business travel.
He and his family travelled to germany in 1887 so that he could study music, but found himself more interested in art. Illustrated with over fifty quaint cuts english as contributor. Moeller fine arts exhibition brings together more than 50 woodcuts. Reprinted here in its most complete form, it brings to life the days when a noble army, men and boys, the matron and the maid, climbed the steep ascent of heaven, mid peril, toil, and pain. He became an illustrator and cartoonist while studying at the berlin academy.
Lyonel feininger ten woodcuts by lyonel feininger 1941 prints executed. Motifs, initially captured in nature studies, recur in lyonel feiningers. Feininger only started working as an artist at the age of 36. Anglers angler from ten woodcuts by lyonel feininger. Foxs book of martyrs christian classics ethereal library. Feininger restructured space in a cubist manner, combining multiple perspectives in the same composition and embracing the flattening and planar tendencies of the woodcut medium. Being eight hundred and sixtysix pictures printed from the original wood. There is a strong emphasis on graphic art and the dazzling series of woodcuts made in the space of a few years, between spring 1918 and the end of 1920 at the. By the mid1920s feininger had begun to establish his mature easel style, seen in the small oil windmill near usedom 1927. The new lyonel feininger exhibition at the whitney comes as a thunderclap. Lyonel charles feininger july 17, 1871 january, 1956 was a german american painter, and a leading exponent of expressionism. Lyonel feininger and photography getty center exhibitions. Lyonel feininger was born in new york city to parents of germanamerican descent.
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