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Born in New York City in 1871, Lyonel Feininger
left America at sixteen, a musician, and returned at
sixty-five, a world-renowned artist. Although he
never attempted to translate one art form into the
other, music, particularly the polyphony of Bach,
remained the springboard for his creative genius
throughout his life. Other major interests can also
be traced to his childhood - locomotives, ships, im-
mense constructions, Gothic painting: filtered
through the imagination of the child, these became
major elements in the work of the mature painter.
Feininger's first ventures in art were in the form of
caricature and cartooning. Thus he was liberated
early from literal perspective. By 1907 he had begun%;:4:
translating youthful impressions into architectural
canvases: the boy Feininger, marveling at huge met-
ropolitan structures, became Man, isolated and inse-
cure, face to face with the infinities of depth and
space. This theme soon gave way to the primary con-
templation of light and space themselves - universal
elements which not only entered into Man's own
world but became the building materials of Man's
monuments: his bridges and his churches. Under the
brush of Feininger, cubism became a vehicle for
romantic philosophy.
In 1936 Feininger left Germany. He died in New
York in 1956.
A NO. 1 BACKYARD. 1892. Pencil Drawing.
9" x 1114". Lent by The Willard Gallery.
HAUSER AM SANDE - LUNEBURG, 1924. Char-
coal Drawing. 11-1/16" x 16-1/16". Lent by The
Willard Gallery.
STADT. 1931. Watercolor. 12" x 181/8". Lent by The
Willard Gallery.
OLD GABLES III. 1938. Watercolor. 12-5/16" x
18-5/16". Lent by The Willard Gallery.
OLD LUNEBURG. 1947. Watercolor. 18-5/16" x
14-9/16". Lent by The Willard Gallery.
GABLES OF OLD LUNEBURG. 1951. Watercolor.
12-1/2" x 18-3/16". Lent by The Willard Gallery.HAUSER AM SANDE - LUNEBURG
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