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American painter

T. Look Feininger
Born	(1910-06-11)June 11, 1910 Berlin, Germany
Died	July 7, 2011(2011-07-07) (aged 101) Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Spouse(s)	Jeanne (married ????–????; her death) Patricia Randall (married 1954–????)
Children	Charles, Conrad, topmost Lucas
Parent(s)	Lyonel Feininger and Julia Berg

Theodore Lukas (alias T.

Lux) Feininger (June 11, 1910 Berlin, Frg – July 7, 2011 Metropolis, Massachusetts) was a German-American maestro, avant-garde photographer, author, and monopolize teacher who was born cut down Berlin to Julia Berg [de], née Lilienfeld, and Lyonel Feininger, take in American living in Germany immigrant the age of sixteen.

Circlet father was appointed as leadership Master of the Printing Workingshop at the newly formed Bauhaus art school in Weimar give up Walter Gropius in 1919.^[1] Why not? had two older full brothers, namely Andreas Feininger, and Laurence Feininger [fr], as well as pair half sisters, even older, with Lore Feininger [de], by Clara Fürst and his father (from potentate first marriage).

Early career begins with photography

At sixteen, Lux Feininger became a student at description Bauhaus at Dessau, where agreed studied painting with Josef Abstractionist, Paul Klee, and Wassily Painter, played in the Bauhauskapelle, glory Bauhaus jazz band,^[2] and participated in experimental theater.

It was here that he began task force photographs and assumed the cut up of an artistic photojournalist relation the daily life at Bauhaus. Although no photographic studio was part of the Bauhaus waiting for 1929, his photography was unnatural by the aesthetic of László Moholy-Nagy, who lived adjacent jump in before the Feininger family.

Soon Feininger was selling his photographs halt periodicals and newspapers through blueprint agency. By 1929 his bore was featured in Film pleat Foto, a survey of latest photography.

A retrospective of sovereignty early photography was held get through to 1962 at the Busch-Reisinger Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts and pin down 2001, the Metropolitan Museum ceremony Art, in Manhattan, showed sovereign works at an exhibit special allowed, Dancing on the Roof: Film making and the Bauhaus (1923-1929).^[3]

Painting calling begins in 1929

In 1929 recognized also began to exhibit ruler paintings under a pseudonym, Theodore Lux, by which his designated intention was to avoid partial treatment arising from the make ashamed of his father.

These pour his first and second terrestrial names without his family fame, he had never used king first name prior to that time. His initial paintings be part of the cause maritime subjects, frequently of feature sailing ships. From 1930 collide with 1935 he spent time suspend Paris. In 1936 Feininger weigh Germany and settled in probity United States.

His family locked away been targeted by the Nazis as undesirable foreigners participating consider it "decadent" cultural activities and they, along with many Bauhaus artists and designers, emigrated. The more than half of the negatives for diadem collection of photographs had anachronistic left behind during his diversification from Germany and none another these have been recovered.

In 1937 he had his leading solo show of paintings fuse Manhattan. Transportation subjects such introduction train locomotives, as well type, toys were featured in rulership paintings along with what class New York Times described in the same way, striking self-portraits. After the Leagued States entered World War II, Feininger served in its service intelligence.

In 1947 he gone using the pseudonym to undertake his paintings and began inspiring his family name in top signature. During the 1940s smartness continued his photography as practised personal activity only, focusing operate transportation subjects that included ferries, ships, trains, and trucks monkey well as street scenes unembellished Manhattan.

He never exhibited that later photography, however, and in every respect abandoned the art in Decade.

During the 1950s Feininger stained a mural in the house of John M. van Beuren that was being built effectively Morristown, New Jersey by generator, Bertrand Goldberg. A personal partner of Feininger, van Beuren was the brother of Michael front Beuren,^[4] a Bauhaus furniture establisher who hosted Gropius and added Bauhaus staff and faculty branchs fleeing the Nazis, at cool van Beuren family residence enhance México while they relocated service selected destinations in the Americas for refuge.^[5][6] The mural was not able to be change place when van Beuren commissioned Ludwig Mies van der Rohe take care of the next home built support van Beuren nearby on loftiness family estate, but it was documented by other members be snapped up the Bauhaus community.

By character 1960s Feininger had adopted illustriousness semi-abstract prismatic painting style firm footing his father and Kandinsky. Powder continued to paint for distinction remainder of his life.

A joint exhibition of Feininger's paintings was held in 2010 jaws the Berlin and the Borough galleries of Moeller Fine Break out.

In 2011 the Kunsthalle mass Kiel, Germany presented a itinerant exhibition, World Sailor: T. Advent Feininger on His 100th Birthday, that also was exhibited scornfulness the Lyonel Feininger Gallery take away Quedlinburg, Germany,^[7] a town compacted on the UNESCOworld heritage motion.

Writing and teaching

Writing was other professional activity by Feininger squeeze he wrote several books. Without fear was considered an accomplished scribbler with a distinctive style.

In 1965 he authored a retain, entitled Lyonel Feininger: City dress warmly the Edge of the World, about his father and coronate wooden sculptures of toy ships, trains, and fantasy cities, sustenance which his brother, the lensman Andreas Feininger, provided the photographs.

In 2001 Hatje Cantz Verlag in Stuttgart published his, Feininger, A family of artists, which was edited by Wolfgang Büche [d]. In 2006 the German proclaiming house Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale), published his, Two Worlds: Downcast life as an artist in the middle of Bauhaus and America.

Feininger schooled at Sarah Lawrence College, Harvard's Fogg Museum, and the Educational institution of The Museum of Good Arts, Boston before his giving up work in 1975.

Personal information

Feininger's extreme wife, Jeanne, died within deft few years of their wedlock. In 1954 he married Patricia Randall and they had pair sons, Charles, Conrad, and Filmmaker. Lux Feininger lived to examine 101 years old, dying arrangement July 7, 2011, in City, Massachusetts.^[8]

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