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Lyonel Charles Feininger (July 17 1871 - January
13 1956); was a German-American painters|painter
and caricaturist. 

Feininger was born to parents of German descent
and grew up in New York City. He moved to Berlin
to study at the Königliche Akademie Berlin under
Ernst Hancke and art schools in Berlin with Karl
Schlabitz and in Paris with sculptor Filippo
Colarossi. He started working as an caricaturist
for several magazines including Harper’s Round
Table, Harper’s Young People, Humoristische
Blätter, Lustige Blätter, Das Narrenschiff,
Berliner Tageblatt and Ulk. 

Feininger married Clara Fürst, daughter of the
painter Gustav Fürst and they had two daughters.
Later he had also several children together with
Julia Berg and they later married. 

The artist is represented with drawings at the
exhibitions of the annual Berlin Secession in the
years 1901 through 1903.

Feiniger only started working as an artist at the
age of 36, after having worked as a commercial
caricaturist for twenty years for various
newspapers and magazines in both the United
States|USA and Germany; he was a member of the
Berliner Sezession in 1909, was associated with
expressionist group Die Brücke, the
Novembergruppe, Gruppe 1919, and The Blue Four. He
also taught at the Bauhaus for several years,
beginning 1919. 

When the NSDAP came to power in 1936, the
situation became unbearable for Feininger and his
wife, who was partly Jewish. They moved to America
after his work was exhibited in the 'degenerate
art' (Entartete Kunst) in 1936, but before the
1937 exhibition in Munich. 

Feininger was one of the very few fine artists
also to draw comic strips as a cartoonist.  His
short-lived strips, The Kin-Der-Kids and Wee
Willie Winkie's World were noted for their fey
humor and graphic experimentation. 

His son, Andreas Feininger, became famous as a
photographer of New York City.

== Selected works ==

* 1907, Der weiße Mann, (Collection Museo Carmen
Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid)
* 1910, Straße im Dämmern, (Sprengel Museum,
Hannover)
* 1913, Gelmeroda I, (Private collection, New
York)
* 1913, Leuchtbake, (Museum Folkwang, Essen,
Germany|Essen)
* 1918, Teltow II, (Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin)
* 1925, Barfüßerkirche in Erfurt I,
(Staatsgalerie Stuttgart)
* 1929, Halle, Am Trödel, (Bauhaus-Archiv,
Berlin)
* 1931, Die Türme über der Stadt (Halle),
(Museum Ludwig, Köln)
* 1936, Gelmeroda XIII, (Metropolitan Museum of
Art, George A. Hearn)

== Related Topics ==
* Cubism
* Expressionism

== References ==
*
http://www.artnet.com/artist/674148/FineArtThumbna
ils.asp?currpage=2&aid=674148&ViewSize=large
Feininger's biography at artnet


== External Links ==
* http://www.toonopedia.com/feiningr.htm
Feininger's cartoons
* http://www.toonopedia.com/feiningr.htm
Toonopedia: Lyonel Feininger