Virtuoso
Virtuoso, 1919, Woodcut
Lyonel Feininger (German-American, 1871 – 1956)
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Lyonel Feininger was a German-American painter born in 1871. He first began working as a cartoonist and caricaturist for popular French and American magazines. Twenty years into his career, Feininger decided to experiment with fine art. He began creating paintings, drawings, and woodcuts, drawing inspiration from Cubism and Orphism. Feninger went on to become involved with the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter and the Bauhaus school. He is best known for the works he created during this time: oil paintings made up of architectural planes. Feininger left behind a lasting legacy. He founded his own group, the Die Blaue Vier, with artists Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Alexej Jawlensky in 1924. He exhibited at major institutions including the Berlin Nationalgalerie, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney American Museum of Art.
From the posthumous edition of 100; 15/100; Associated American Artists Label on Back
