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Lyonel Feininger

[American-born German Cubist/Expressionist Painter, 1871-1956]

• Relationships: Father of Andreas Feininger and Lux Feininger.
Associated with the Bauhaus School in Weimar, Germany.
Member of the American Abstract Artists group.
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Original works by Lyonel Feininger available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database
8 works by Lyonel Feininger online

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas

Lyonel Feininger at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Many works by Lyonel Feininger

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
3 works

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
4 works by Lyonel Feininger online

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh

Lyonel Feininger at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
3 works by Lyonel Feininger

North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
The Green Bridge II, 1916

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
The Village Pond of Gelmeroda

The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
3 works online

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

Armand Hammer Museum of Art at UCLA, California   NEW!
2 comic pages are by Feininger

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
(A sailing boat with a dinghy), 1888

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Sailing ship with three stars, 1933

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Many drawings online

Bauhaus-Archiv Museum of Design, Berlin
Portfolio for Walter Gropius "1924 18/V"

Bauhaus-Archiv Museum of Design, Berlin
Cathedral, wood-cut for the Bauhaus Manifesto, 1919

Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
2 works online (Note that this site opens each work in a new window)

Brooklyn Museum, New York City   NEW!

Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
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Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Zirchow

Christchurch Art Gallery / Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand   NEW!
Wald Kirche, 2, woodcut

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Gelmeroda (Thuringia, Germany)
Cathedral (Cammin)
Markwippach
The Virtuoso


Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
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Schlossgasse, 1915

Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
2 works online

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York
Lighthouse I, 1947

Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington - Provenance Research Project
2 works online

Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
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Lyonel Feininger in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Zirchow VI

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas

Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento, Italy (in Italian)  

Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project
5 works by Feininger

Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
Mill, 1918

Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
The Gate, ca.1920

Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)  

Philadelphia Museum of Art
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3 works by Lyonel Feininger online

Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
3 paintings online

Sheldon Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
Brooding Sky
City Moon


Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago

Smith College Museum of Art, Massachusetts

Lyonel Feininger at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

Lyonel Feininger at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
From "Getting the Picture: Illustrated Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art"

Sweet Briar College Art Gallery, Virginia

Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago
Denstedt, 1917

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid   NEW!
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University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City   NEW!
In a Village Near Paris, 1909

Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)  

Walker Art Center, Minnesota

Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
3 works online

Wichita Art Museum, Kansas   NEW!
Calm, 1940

Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)

 
Commercial Galleries:
Lempertz Auction Gallery, Cologne, Germany -- Highlights from Past Sales
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Professional Tools:
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
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Pictures from Image Archives:
Lyonel Feininger at CGFA

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Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  
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Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

Lyonel Feininger at ImageNETion

Lyonel Feininger at The Athenaeum
5 works online

University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser

 
Other Web Sites:
Kubisme (Cubism) (in Dutch)  

The Modernist Journals Project

The Visual Telling of Stories

 
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Lyonel Feininger
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Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

Deutsche Bank Artmag
Lyonel Feininger: Strollers - The Passing Scene

Gibbon Art Blog

Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
The Alfred Vance Churchill papers regarding Lyonel Feininger online

The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Lyonel Feininger's Leap, Caricaturist to Cubist

The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Tobey and Feininger, Epistolary Buddies In the Avant-Garde

Time Magazine
"The Velocipede of Modernism", 1986 article by Robert Hughes

  
 
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Barfusserkirche, 1924
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Feininger: Upper Weimar
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Lyonel Feininger: Vogel Wolke (Bird Cloud)
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Feininger: The Green Bridge
The Green Bridge

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