Lyonel Feininger

**Lyonel Charles Feininger** (July 17, 1871 – January 13, 1956) was a German-American painter. He also drew cartoons.

## Personal life
Lyonel Feininger's father was the German violinist Karl Feininger. His mother was the American singer Elizabeth Feininger. Feininger grew up in New York City.

Feininger married Clara Fürst, the daughter of the painter Gustav Fürst. They had two daughters. He also had several children with Julia Berg whom he later married. His sons, Andreas Feininger and T. Lux Feininger, both became artists. Andreas was a photographer and T. Lux became a photographer and a painter.

## Artwork
He moved to Berlin in 1887 to study at the Königliche Akademie Berlin under Ernst Hancke. Then he studied at art schools in Berlin with Karl Schlabitz, and in Paris with sculptor Filippo Colarossi. He started as a caricaturist in 1894 for several German, French and American magazines. These included ''Harper's Round Table*, *Harper's Young People*, *Humoristische Blätter*, *Lustige Blätter*, *Das Narrenschiff*, *Berliner Tageblatt* and *Ulk*.

In February of 1906, James Keeley, editor of The *Chicago Tribune'' traveled to Germany. He was looking for artists to draw cartoons for his newspaper. He recruited Feininger to draw two comic strips ("The Kin-der-Kids" and "Wee Willie Winkie's World") for the *Chicago Tribune*.  People liked the comic strips for their humor and experimental drawing style. Fenininger also worked as a commercial caricaturist for 20 years for various newspapers and magazines in both the USA and Germany. Later, Art Spiegelman wrote in *The New York Times Book Review,* that Feininger's comics have “achieved a breathtaking formal grace unsurpassed in the history of the medium.”

Feininger also worked sometimes as a pianist and composer. Music historians still keep several of Feininger's piano compositions and fugues for organ.

## 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)
* 1918, *Teltow II*, (Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin)
* 1918, "Yellow Streets II", (Musée de Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Montréal)
* 1925, *Barfüßerkirche in Erfurt I*, (Staatsgalerie Stuttgart)
* 1929, *Halle, Am Trödel*, (Bauhaus-Archive, Berlin)
* 1931, *Die Türme über der Stadt (Halle)*, (Museum Ludwig, Köln)
* 1936, *Gelmeroda XIII*, (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City)

## Related pages
*Cubism
*Expressionism

## References and notes
## Further reading
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* Haskell, Barbara. *Lyonel Feininger: At The Edge of the World*. Exhibition Catalogue. New York: Whitney
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## Other websites
* Lyonel Feininger Project
* http://www.moellerfineart.com/artists/lyonel-feininger/ Moeller Fine Art, New York + Berlin, world expert on Lyonel Feininger
* Lyonel Feininger Digital Album  The Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library
* Toonopedia: Lyonel Feininger
* Lyonel Feininger's Photo & Gravesite
* Available Works and Biography  Galerie Ludorff, Düsseldorf, Germany
* Lyonel Feininger papers at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art