Art Of The Day Weekly
#384 - from 16 April 2015 to 22 April 2015
Lyonel FEININGER (1871-1956), Cathedral [large painting] (Kathedrale [grosser Stock]), 1919, engraved wood, 30.8 x 19.1 cm. Frontispice of the programme at the Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar, 1919. Private collection. © Maurice Aeschimann — © ADAGP, Paris, 2015
Feininger, the cosmopolitan avant-garde
LE HAVRE – He is probably less known in France than his son, photographer Andreas. Yet, Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) is one of the great names of modern art and his longevity, his travels, his friendships allowed him to take part in the main avant-gardes. A caricaturist at the end of the XIXth century, close to the Fauvist and then the Secession, Die Brücke, he was then one of the pillars of the Bauhaus. A man of two cultures –German and American – he went back to his native country when Nazism started to point its ugly nose, and there too succeeded. This exhibition, based on on single collection, shows in particular his talent as a drawer and engraver with his recurrent motifs: the city (and his High Houses ), the sail boats and ports, and his very specific sense of geometric synthesis.
• Lyonel Feininger, l’arpenteur du monde at the musée d’Art moderne André-Malraux, from 18 April to 31 August 2015.