Lyonel Feininger

1871

Lyonel Feininger is born on the 17th of July in New York

1888

Attends the Royal Academy in Berlin

1892

Studies at the “Academie Colarossi” in Paris

1909

Member of the Berlin Secession

1919

Appointment to the “Bauhaus” in Weimar

1924

Formation of “Die Blaue Vier” (the Blue Four) in conjunction with Alexej von Jawlensky, Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky

1937

Escape from the Nationals Socialists to New York. 400 of Feininger’s artworks were seized and defamed as “degenerate”

1947

President of the “Federation of American Painters and Sculptors”

1956

Lyonel Feininger dies on the 15th of January in New York

A selection

2023–2024

Lyonel Feininger. Retrospective Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt Lyonel Feininger. Master of Modernism Museum Lyonel Feininger, Quedlinburg

2011–2012

Lyonel Feininger: At the Edge of the World Whitney Museum of American Art, New York → then Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada

2003–2004

Lyonel Feininger: Images of People. An Unknown World (Figurative Works) Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg

1998

Retrospective Lyonel Feininger Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin & Haus der Kunst, Munich

1944–1945

Lyonel Feininger Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York

1917

Solo exhibition Lyonel Feininger Galerie “Der Sturm”, Berlin