Biography
Born in New York in 1871 to German -American parents, Lyonel Charles Feininger moved to Germany at the age of sixteen in order to study painting. After training at several art schools, he found work as a caricaturist, illustrating a wide range of German and American publications as well as exhibiting with the Berlin Secession in 1901 and 1903. He became one of the leading exponents of the Bauhaus, and was the first faculty appointment at Walter Gropius’ Bauhaus school, where he taught printmaking before fleeing the country after the rise of the Nazis, who branded him a degenerate. Returning to New York after an absence of 50 years, he once again found success for his illustrations, paintings and, posthumously, his photographs. In 2011 a major retrospective of his work was held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the first since his death in 1956, which traced his relationships with the various modern German art movements.
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