Lyonel Feininger

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Lyonel Feininger was a German-American painter, printmaker, and caricaturist best known for his architectonic, cubist-influenced Expressionist works and his association with the Bauhaus.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Bauhaus teacher
Expressionist artist
caricaturist
painter
person
printmaker
birthDate 1871-07-17
birthPlace New York City
United States
child Andreas Feininger
Laurence Feininger NERFINISHED
Theodore Lux Feininger
citizenship German Empire
United States
deathDate 1956-01-13
deathPlace New York City NERFINISHED
United States
employer Bauhaus
familyName Feininger
field painting
printmaking
genre architectural painting
cityscapes
seascapes
givenName Lyonel
influencedBy Cubism
German Expressionism
knownFor Bauhaus association
architectonic compositions
cubist-influenced Expressionist works
movement Cubism
Expressionism
Modernism
name Lyonel Feininger
nationality American
German
notableActivity teaching at the Bauhaus in Weimar
notableWork Cathedral (Bauhaus manifesto woodcut)
Church of the Minorites II
Gelmeroda series
occupation caricaturist
cartoonist
painter
printmaker
spouse Julia Berg
Julia Feininger
style architectonic abstraction
workedIn Germany
United States


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