Oral history interview with T. Lux Feininger
name: label: Interviewee
content: Feininger, T. Lux
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Bauhaus
label: Names
content: Feininger, Lyonel, 1871-1956
topic: label: Topic
content: Painters -- Massachusetts -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are part of the Archives' Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Feininger, T. Lux
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: T. Lux Feininger (1910-2011) was a painter and educator of Cambridge, Mass.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 6 Sound cassettes (Sound recording)
label: Extent
content: 142 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1987 May 19-1988 Mar. 17
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.feinin87
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound cassettes
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of T. Lux Feininger conducted by Robert F. Brown for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Feininger speaks of his childhood in Germany as the son of the American expatriate painter Lyonel Feininger; his experiences as the youngest pupil at the Bauhaus; his early photography and painting; moving to New York; teaching at Sarah Lawrence College, Harvard, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and his paintings.